Molecular analysis of programmed cell death during senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica oleracea: Cloning broccoli LSD1, Bax inhibitor and serine palmitoyltransferase homologues

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 55, Issue 394, 2004, Pages 59-68

  Coupe, Simon A ^a,b   Watson, Lyn M ^a   Ryan, Dacey J ^a   Pinkney, Tatyana T ^a   Eason, Jocelyn R ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ceramide; DNA laddering; Post harvest; Sphingolipid biosynthesis; TUNEL analysis

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DNA; GENES; PROTEINS; TISSUE;

FRAGMENTATION; REGULATORY GENES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ATBI 1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ATBI-1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LSD1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SERINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BRASSICA; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NICK END LABELING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRASSICA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT SHOOTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE C-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA; BRASSICA OLERACEA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS;

EID: 0346056755     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erh018     Document Type: Article

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