Phenylpropanoid glycosyltransferases from osage orange (Maclura pomifera) fruit

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 30, 2006, Pages 6915-6920

  Tian, Li ^a   Blount, Jack W ^a   Dixon, Richard A ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Flavonoid; Glycosyltransferase; Isoflavonoid; Osage orange fruit

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GLYCOSYLATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; ORANGE (FRUIT); PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COUMARINS; FLAVONOIDS; FRUIT; GLUCOSE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; KINETICS; MACLURA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHENYLPROPIONATES; PHYLOGENY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

INSECTA; MACLURA POMIFERA;

EID: 33845386069     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.11.056     Document Type: Article

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