Redirection of flavonoid biosynthesis through the down-regulation of an anthocyanidin glucosyltransferase in ripening strawberry fruit

Plant Physiology

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1528-1539

  Griesser, Markus ^a,e   Hoffmann, Thomas ^a   Bellido, Mari Luz ^b   Rosati, Carlo ^c   Fink, Barbara ^a   Kurtzer, Robert ^a   Aharoni, Asaph ^d,f   Muñoz Blanco, Juan ^b   Schwab, Wilfried ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c Trisaia Research Center   (Italy)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

FLAVONOID; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PRIMER DNA; UDP GLUCOSE ANTHOCYANIN 5 O GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; UDP-GLUCOSE ANTHOCYANIN 5-O-GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; STRAWBERRY;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DNA PRIMERS; DOWN-REGULATION; FLAVONOIDS; FRAGARIA; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 48549092118     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.107.114280     Document Type: Article

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