Isolation of cDNAs for R2R3-MYB, bHLH and WDR transcriptional regulators and identification of c and ca mutations conferring white flowers in the Japanese morning glory

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 457-470

  Morita, Yasumasa ^a   Saitoh, Miho ^a,b   Hoshino, Atsushi ^a   Nitasaka, Eiji ^c   Iida, Shigeru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthocyanin biosynthesis; Flower and seed pigmentation; Ipomoea nil; Transcriptional regulator genes; Trichome formation

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ANTHOCYANIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CHALCONE ISOMERASE; CHALCONE SYNTHASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FLAVANONE 3 DIOXYGENASE; FLAVANONE 3-DIOXYGENASE; ISOMERASE; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; PLANT DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; FLOWER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IPOMOEA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PLANT SEED; RECESSIVE GENE;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTHOCYANINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, RECESSIVE; INTRAMOLECULAR LYASES; IPOMOEA; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PIGMENTATION; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

IPOMOEA; IPOMOEA NIL;

EID: 33646231532     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcj012     Document Type: Article

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