Structure and expression of the gene family encoding putrescine N-methyltransferase in Nicotiana tabacum: New clues to the evolutionary origin of cultivated tobacco

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 387-401

  Riechers, Dean E ^a   Timko, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Gene expression; Nicotiana tabacum; Nicotine; Putrescine N methyltransferase; Tobacco gene evolution

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCING; PLANT GENOME; PUTRESCINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, PLANT; GENOMIC LIBRARY; INTRONS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NICOTINE; PLANTS, TOXIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA SYLVESTRIS; NICOTIANA TABACUM; NICOTIANA TABACURA; NICOTIANA TOMENTOSIFORMIS; TABACUM;

EID: 0033213146     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006342018991     Document Type: Article

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