Condensing enzymes from Cuphea wrightii associated with medium chain fatty acid biosynthesis

Plant Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 611-620

  Slabaugh, Mary B ^a   Leonard, Jeffrey M ^a   Knapp, Steven J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BARLEY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CASTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHENOTYPE; SEED DEVELOPMENT; SEED OIL;

3-OXOACYL-(ACYL-CARRIER-PROTEIN) SYNTHASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CAERULEIN; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PLANT OILS; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CUPHEA VISCOSISSIMA; CUPHEA WRIGHTII; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 0032033114     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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