The Arabidopsis thaliana TAG1 mutant has a mutation in a diacylglycerol acyltransferase gene

Plant Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 645-653

  Zou, Jitao ^a   Wei, Yangdou ^a   Jako, Colette ^a   Kumar, Arvind ^a   Selvaraj, Gopalan ^a   Taylor, David C ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; MUTATION; PLANT GENETICS;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIACYLGLYCEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; YEASTS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033197608     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00555.x     Document Type: Article

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