Elucidation of the β-carotene hydroxylation pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4718-4722

  Fiore, Alessia ^a   Dall'Osto, Luca ^b   Fraser, Paul D ^d   Bassi, Roberto ^b,c   Giuliano, Giovanni ^a  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Carotene hydroxylases; Carotenoid biosynthesis; Xanthophylls

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CAROTENE; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; DNA; HEME; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; OXYGENASE; XANTHOPHYLL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA ISOLATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; HYDROXYLATION; INDUCED MUTATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XANTHOPHYLL CYCLE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA CAROTENE; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, PLANT; HYDROXYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 33746931756     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.07.055     Document Type: Article

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