Overexpression of the FAD3 desaturase gene in a mutant of Arabidopsis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1533-1539

  Shah, Salehuzzaman ^a,b   Xin, Zhanguo ^a   Browse, John ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESATURASE; GEL BLOT ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIPID METABOLISM;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0031200790     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.4.1533     Document Type: Article

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