Analysis of bHLH and MYB domain proteins: Species-specific regulatory differences are caused by divergent evolution of target anthocyanin genes

Plant Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 475-488

  Quattrocchio, Francesca ^a   Wing, John F ^a   Van der Woude, Karel ^a   Mol, Joseph N M ^a   Koes, Ronald ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MYB PROTEIN, PLANT; PLANT RNA; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN C MYB; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTHOCYANINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PIGMENTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYB; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

PETUNIA X HYBRIDA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032005926     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00046.x     Document Type: Article

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