An early gene of the flavonoid pathway, flavanone 3-hydroxylase, exhibits a positive relationship with the concentration of catechins in tea (Camellia sinensis)

Tree Physiology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1349-1356

  Singh, Kashmir ^a,b   Rani, Arti ^a   Kumar, Sanjay ^a   Sood, Payal ^a   Mahajan, Monika ^a   Yadav, Sudesh K ^a   Singh, Bikram ^c   Ahuja, Paramvir S ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c Natural Plant Products Division   (India)

Author keywords

Expression analysis; F3H

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENZYME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LEAF; PROTEIN; SECONDARY METABOLITE; TEA; WOUNDING;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CATECHIN; FLAVANONE 3 DIOXYGENASE; FLAVANONE 3-DIOXYGENASE; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE;

AGE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT LEAF; TEA;

AGE FACTORS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CAMELLIA; CATECHIN; DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT LEAVES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 52949122517     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/28.9.1349     Document Type: Article

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