Developmental expression and substrate specificities of alfalfa caffeic acid 3-O-methyltransferase and caffeoyl coenzyme A 3-O-methyltransferase in relation to lignification

Plant Physiology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 761-770

  Inoue, Kentaro ^a   Sewalt, Vincent J H ^a,b   Ballance, G Murray ^a,c   Ni, Weiting ^a,d   Stürzer, Cornelia ^a,e   Dixon, Richard A ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^b PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFFEATE O METHYLTRANSFERASE; CAFFEATE O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CAFFEOYL COA O METHYLTRANSFERASE; CAFFEOYL-COA O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIGNIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ALFALFA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT STEM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIGNIN; MEDICAGO SATIVA; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT STEMS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032114331     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.117.3.761     Document Type: Article

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