Impaired expression of the plastidic ferrochelatase by antisense RNA synthesis leads to a necrotic phenotype of transformed tobacco plants

Plant Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-50

  Papenbrock, Jutta ^a,b   Mishra, Sanjay ^a   Mock, Hans Peter ^a   Kruse, Elisabeth ^a   Schmidt, Eva Kathrin ^a   Petersmann, Astrid ^b   Braun, Hans Peter ^b   Grimm, Bernhard ^a,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 aminolevulinic acid synthesis; Chlorophyll; Heme; Magnesium chelatase; Metabolic engineering; Protoporphyrin IX; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

CHELATION; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CULTIVAR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERROCHELATASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MAGNESIUM ION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHENOTYPE; PLASTID; PROTOPORPHYRIN; RNA SYNTHESIS; WILD RELATIVE;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHELATION; CHLOROPHYLL; DNA; ENZYMES; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; RNA; TOBACCO;

MITOCHONDRIAL HEME SYNTHESIS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CLONING, MOLECULAR; FERROCHELATASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HEME; ISOENZYMES; LIGHT; MITOCHONDRIA; NECROSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASTIDS; PROTOPORPHYRINS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; TOBACCO;

EID: 0034762470     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2001.01126.x     Document Type: Article

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