Expression of a feedback insensitive anthranilate synthase gene from tobacco increases free tryptophan in soybean plants

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1763-1771

  Inaba, Yoshimi ^b   Brotherton, Jeffrey E ^c   Ulanov, Alexander ^a   Widholm, Jack M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c North Greenville University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthranilate synthase; ASA2; Glycine max; Metabolic profiling; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENES; METABOLISM; TOBACCO;

ANTHRANILATE SYNTHASE; GLYCINE MAX; METABOLIC PROFILING; TRYPTOPHAN;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANTHRANILATE SYNTHASE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SOYBEAN; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANTHRANILATE SYNTHASE; CELL NUCLEUS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOYBEANS; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRYPTOPHAN;

GLYCINE MAX; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 34548590342     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-007-0381-0     Document Type: Article

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