Applications of DL-buthionine-[S,R]-sulfoximine deplete cellular glutathione and improve white spruce (Picea glauca) somatic embryo development

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 517-523

  Belmonte, Mark F ^a   Stasolla, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apical meristems; Buthionine S,R sulfoximine; Glutathione; Picea glauca; Somatic embryogenesis; White spruce

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; POLYPEPTIDES; TISSUE;

APICAL CELLS; APICAL MERISTEMS; GLUTATHIONE; MERISTEM DEGRADATION;

SOFTWOODS;

BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROSCOPY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PLANT SEED; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRUCE;

BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; CELLS, CULTURED; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; MICROSCOPY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PICEA; SEEDS;

BIOSYNTHESIS; INHIBITION; MERISTEMS; PICEA GLAUCA; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS;

PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 33947494200     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-006-0267-6     Document Type: Article

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