One type of chalcone synthase gene expressed during embryogenesis regulates the flavonoid accumulation in citrus cell cultures

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 651-655

  Moriguchi, Takaya ^a   Kita, Masayuki ^b   Tomono, Yasuhiko ^a   Endo Inagaki, Tomoko ^a   Omura, Mitsuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Chalcone synthase; Citrus; Flavonoid biosynthesis; Somatic embryogenesis

Indexed keywords

CHALCONE SYNTHASE; CLONE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; FLAVONOID; GENE INDUCTION; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHOLOGY; PLANT CELL CULTURE; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS;

CITRUS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033150239     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029589     Document Type: Article

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