Dual function of pyrimidine metabolism in potato (Solanum tuberosum) plants: Pyrimidine salvage and supply of β-alanine to pantothenic acid synthesis

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-43

  Katahira, Riko ^a,b   Ashihara, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO KASEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMES; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

NUCLEOSIDES; POTATO; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 33645881658     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2006.00658.x     Document Type: Article

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