Improving retting of fibre through genetic modification of flax to express pectinases

Transgenic Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 133-147

  Musialak, Magdalena ^a   Wróbel Kwiatkowska, Magdalena ^a,b   Kulma, Anna ^a   Starzycka, Eligia ^c   Szopa, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b Madex SJ   (Poland)

^c PLANT BREEDING AND ACCLIMATIZATION INSTITUTE NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Linum usitatissimum; Mechanical properties; Pathogen resistance; Polygalacturonase (PGI); Rhamnogalacturonase (RHA)

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; LIGNIN; PECTIN; PHENOLIC ACID; POLYGALACTURONASE; PRIMER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ENZYMOLOGY; FLAX; FUNGAL GENE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; TEXTILE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ASPERGILLUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLULOSE; DNA PRIMERS; FLAX; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; HYDROXYBENZOIC ACIDS; LIGNIN; PECTINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYGALACTURONASE; TEXTILES;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS ACULEATUS; FUNGI; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; LINUM USITATISSIMUM;

EID: 37549033928     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-007-9080-4     Document Type: Article

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