Implications of carotenoid biosynthetic genes in apocarotenoid formation during the stigma development of Crocus sativus and its closer relatives

Plant Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 674-689

  Castillo, Raquel ^a   Fernández, José Antonio ^a   Gómez Gómez, Lourdes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENZYMES; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CAROTENOID BIOSYNTHESIS GENES; CSBCH INTRON SEQUENCES; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PHYTOENE DESATURASE;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ENZYMES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS;

CROCUS; CROCUS SATIVUS;

BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PLANT DNA; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CROCUS; FLOWER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOIDS; CROCUS; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 33644653603     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.067827     Document Type: Article

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