The CER3 wax biosynthetic gene from Arabidopsis thaliana is allelic to WAX2/YRE/FLP1

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 3538-3544

  Rowland, Owen ^a   Lee, Robert ^a   Franke, Rochus ^b   Schreiber, Lukas ^b   Kunst, Ljerka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; CER3; Cuticular wax; Cutin; WAX2 YRE FLP1

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN CER3; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLANT LEAVES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WAXES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 34447253127     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.06.065     Document Type: Article

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