Targeting a nuclear anthranilate synthase α-subunit gene to the tobacco plastid genome results in enhanced tryptophan biosynthesis. Return of a gene to its pre-endosymbiotic origin

Plant Physiology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 131-141

  Zhang, X H ^a   Brotherton, J E ^a   Widholm, J M ^a   Portis A R , Jr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRANILATE SYNTHASE; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MESSENGER RNA; OPEN READING FRAME; SPECTINOMYCIN; TRYPTOPHAN; WILD RELATIVE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA; ENZYMES; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA; SEED;

PLASTIDS;

GENES;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0034831624     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.127.1.131     Document Type: Article

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