Uracil salvage is necessary for early Arabidopsis development

Plant Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 280-291

  Mainguet, Samuel E ^a   Gakière, Bertrand ^a   Majira, Amel ^b   Pelletier, Sandra ^a   Bringel, Françoise ^c   Guérard, Florence ^d   Caboche, Michel ^a   Berthomé, Richard ^a   Renou, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT SCIENCES PARIS SACLAY IPS2   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Early development; Plastid; Pyrimidine salvage; Uracil phosphoribosyltransferase

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT DNA; T DNA; T-DNA; URACIL; URACIL PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PENTOSYLTRANSFERASES; PHYLOGENY; URACIL;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 70349869037     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2009.03963.x     Document Type: Article

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