An intragenic tandem duplication in a transcriptional regulatory gene for anthocyanin biosynthesis confers pale-colored flowers and seeds with fine spots in Ipomoea tricolor

Plant Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 840-849

  Park, Kyeung Il ^a   Choi, Jeong Doo ^a   Hoshino, Atsushi ^a   Morita, Yasumasa ^a   Iida, Shigeru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

bHLH protein; Flower and seed pigmentation; Intrachromosomal homologous recombination; Intragenic tandem duplication; Mutable allele; Transcriptional factor

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; PIGMENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED;

FLOWERS; GENE ENCODING;

GENES;

ANTHOCYANIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; IPOMOEA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PLANT SEED; TRANSPOSON;

ANTHOCYANINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; IPOMOEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PIGMENTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA; IPOMOEA; IPOMOEA TRICOLOR; PUNCTUM BLANDIANUM; SPERMATOPHYTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 2542619943     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02098.x     Document Type: Article

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