Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana with pleiotropic effects on the expression of the gene for β-amylase and on the accumulation of anthocyanin that are inducible by sugars

Plant Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 841-851

  Mita, Satoru ^a,b   Murano, Nobuhito ^a   Akaike, Mikiko ^a   Nakamura, Kenzo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; BETA AMYLASE; CARBOHYDRATE; STARCH;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DRUG EFFECT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANTHOCYANINS; ARABIDOPSIS; BETA-AMYLASE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MUTATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; STARCH;

EID: 0031128306     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1997.11040841.x     Document Type: Article

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