Cloning of tangerine from tomato reveals a Carotenoid isomerase essential for the production of β-carotene and xanthophylls in plants

Plant Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 333-342

  Isaacson, Tal ^a   Ronen, Gil ^a   Zamir, Dani ^a   Hirschberg, Joseph ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; ENZYMES; FRUITS; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENTS; TISSUE;

TANGERINE LOCUS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITRUS RETICULATA; EMBRYOPHYTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; CIS TRANS ISOMERASE; LYCOPENE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHYTOENE DEHYDROGENASE; XANTHOPHYLL; ZETA CAROTENE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOMERISM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; TOMATO;

ALLELES; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOIDS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CIS-TRANS-ISOMERASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; ISOMERISM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; XANTHOPHYLLS; ZETA CAROTENE;

EID: 0036009770     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.010303     Document Type: Article

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