Insertional inactivation of the methionine S-methyltransferase gene eliminates the S-methylmethionine cycle and increases the methylation ratio

Plant Physiology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1808-1815

  Kocsis, Michael G ^a   Ranocha, Philippe ^a,h   Gage, Douglas A ^b   Simon, Eric S ^b   Rhodes, David ^c   Peel, Gregory J ^c   Mellema, Stefan ^d   Saito, Kazuki ^e   Awazuhara, Motoko ^e   Li, Changjiang ^f   Meeley, Robert B ^f   Tarczynski, Mitchell C ^f   Wagner, Conrad ^g   Hanson, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^g VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CATALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; SULFUR; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

METHYLATION;

GENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037393243     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.102.018846     Document Type: Article

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