Antisense inhibition of threonine synthase leads to high methionine content in transgenic potato plants

Plant Physiology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 792-802

  Zeh, M ^a   Casazza, A P ^a   Kreft, O ^a   Roessner, U ^a   Bieberich, K ^a   Willmitzer, L ^a   Hoefgen, R ^a   Hesse, H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE GENE; ASPARTIC ACID; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; CULTIVAR; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA SYNTHASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC REGULATION; LEAF TISSUE; METHIONINE; PROMOTER REGION; THREONINE SYNTHASE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD RELATIVE;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; METABOLISM; RNA; TISSUE;

TRANSGENICS;

CROPS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0035198236     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.010438     Document Type: Article

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