Engineering of the rose flavonoid biosynthetic pathway successfully generated blue-hued flowers accumulating delphinidin

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1589-1600

  Katsumoto, Yukihisa ^a   Fukuchi Mizutani, Masako ^a   Fukui, Yuko ^a   Brugliera, Filippa ^b   Holton, Timothy A ^b   Karan, Mirko ^b   Nakamura, Noriko ^a   Yonekura Sakakibara, Keiko ^a,c   Togami, Junichi ^a   Pigeaire, Alix ^b   Tao, Guo Qing ^b   Nehra, Narender S ^b   Lu, Chin Yi ^b   Dyson, Barry K ^b   Tsuda, Shinzo ^a   Ashikari, Toshihiko ^a,b   Kusumi, Takaaki ^a   Mason, John G ^b   Tanaka, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a SUNTORY LTD   (Japan)

^b Florigene Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthocyanin; Delphinidin; Flavonoid; Flower color; Metabolic engineering; Rosa hybrida

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ANTHOCYANIN; DELPHINIDIN; DIHYDROFLAVANOL 4 REDUCTASE; DIHYDROFLAVANOL 4-REDUCTASE; FLAVONOID; PIGMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FLOWER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PH; PHENOTYPE; ROSE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANTHOCYANINS; FLAVONOIDS; FLOWERS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ROSA;

ROSA; ROSA HYBRID CULTIVAR; VIOLACEAE;

EID: 36248930332     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcm131     Document Type: Article

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