Genetic mapping, cloning, and functional characterization of the BnaX.VTE4 gene encoding a γ-tocopherol methyltransferase from oilseed rape

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 567-575

  Endrigkeit, Jessica ^a   Wang, Xingxing ^b   Cai, Daguang ^a   Zhang, Chunyu ^b   Long, Yan ^b   Meng, Jinling ^b   Jung, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA NAPUS; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION; GENE FAMILIES; GENES ENCODING ENZYMES; GENETIC MAP; GENETIC MAPPING; GENOMIC STRUCTURE; HUMAN NUTRITION; MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION; METHYLTRANSFERASE; OIL SEED CROPS; OIL SEED RAPE; THALIANA; TOCOPHEROL CONTENTS; TRANSGENIC; VITAMIN-E;

CLONING; CROPS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ENZYMES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENE ENCODING;

GAMMA TOCOPHEROL METHYLTRANSFERASE; GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; CROSS BREEDING; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HAPLOIDY; INTRON; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RAPESEED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRASSICA NAPUS; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, PLANT; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOIDY; INTRONS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA NAPUS;

EID: 67749107951     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-009-1066-6     Document Type: Article

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