Reduction in the endogenous arginine decarboxylase transcript levels in rice leads to depletion of the putrescine and spermidine pools with no concomitant changes in the expression of downstream genes in the polyamine biosynthetic pathway

Planta

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 125-134

  Trung Nghia, Pham ^a,b   Bassie, Ludovic ^a   Safwat, Gehan ^a,c   Thu Hang, Pham ^a,d   Lepri, Olivia ^a,c   Rocha, Pedro ^a,e   Christou, Paul ^a   Capell, Teresa ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e CENIPALMA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Antisense; Arginine decarboxylase; Oryza; Polyamine

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; CROPS; ENZYMES; GENES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA;

REGULATORY MECHANISMS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARGININE DECARBOXYLASE; CARBOXYLYASE; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; POLYAMINE; PRIMER DNA; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOXY-LYASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; ORYZA SATIVA; POLYAMINES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUTRESCINE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PLANT; SPERMIDINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AVENA; AVENA SATIVA; EUKARYOTA; ORYZA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0347300312     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-003-1079-3     Document Type: Article

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