The irregular xylem9 mutant is deficient in Xylan xylosyltransferase activity

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1624-1634

  Lee, Chanhui ^a   O'Neill, Malcolm A ^a   Tsumuraya, Yoichi ^b   Darvill, Alan G ^a   Ye, Zheng Hua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Glucuronyltransferase; Irregular xylem9; Xylan; Xylosyltransferase

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FRA8 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; IRX8 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; IRX9 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; UDP XYLOSE PROTEIN XYLOSYLTRANSFERASE; UDP XYLOSE-PROTEIN XYLOSYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLAN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MUTATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; PENTOSYLTRANSFERASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; XYLANS;

ARABIDOPSIS; DICOTYLEDONEAE;

EID: 36248933573     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcm135     Document Type: Article

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