Quantitative transcript profiling reveals down-regulation of a sterol pathway relevant gene and overexpression of artemisinin biogenetic genes in transgenic Artemisia annua plants

Planta Medica

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1510-1516

  Yang, Rui Yi ^a   Feng, Li Ling ^a   Yang, Xue Qin ^a   Yin, Lu Lu ^a   Xu, Xiao Ling ^a   Zeng, Qing Ping ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Artemisia annua; Artemisinin; Asteraceae; Expression profiling; Quantification; Transgenic plant

Indexed keywords

AMORPHADIENE SYNTHASE; ARTEMISININ; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 71AV1; CYTOCHROME P450 REDUCTASE; MESSENGER RNA; SQUALENE SYNTHASE; STEROL; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTEMISIA ANNUA; ARTICLE; ASSS GENE; BIOGENESIS; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARTEMISIA ANNUA; ARTEMISININS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; FARNESYL-DIPHOSPHATE FARNESYLTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; NADPH-FERRIHEMOPROTEIN REDUCTASE; PHYTOSTEROLS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

ARTEMISIA ANNUA; ASTERACEAE;

EID: 54249152044     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1081333     Document Type: Article

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