Alterations in tocopherol cyclase activity in transgenic and mutant plants of Arabidopsis affect tocopherol content, tocopherol composition, and oxidative stress

Plant Physiology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 713-723

  Kanwischer, Marion ^a   Porfirova, Svetlana ^a   Bergmüller, Eveline ^a   Dörmann, Peter ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOSYNTHESIS; VITAMINS;

REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES (ROS); TOCOPHEROL CYCLASE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS; VITAMINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ASCORBIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; MUTASE; TOCOPHEROL; TOCOPHEROL CYCLASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ASCORBIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTATHIONE; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; LIGHT; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TOCOPHEROLS;

EID: 17644419591     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.054908     Document Type: Article

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