Arabidopsis fragile fiber8, which encodes a putative glucuronyltransferase, is essential for normal secondary wall synthesis

Plant Cell

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3390-3406

  Zhong, Ruiqin ^a   Peña, Maria J ^a   Zhou, Gong Ke ^a   Nairn, C Joseph ^a   Wood Jones, Alicia ^a   Richardson, Elizabeth A ^a   Morrison III, W Herbert ^b   Darvill, Alan G ^a   York, William S ^a   Ye, Zheng Hua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b RUSSELL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMES; NATURAL FIBERS;

ARABIDOPSIS; DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS; GLUCURONYLTRANSFERASE; SECONDARY WALL SYNTHESIS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMES; NATURAL FIBERS; PLANTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; NICOTIANA PLUMBAGINIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 33644817607     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.035501     Document Type: Article

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