Engineering increases in sulfur amino acid contents in flax by overexpressing the yeast Met25 gene

Plant Science

Volumn 177, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 584-592

  Czuj, Tadeusz ^a   Zuk, Magdalena ^a   Starzycki, Michał ^b   Amir, Rachel ^c   Szopa, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b PLANT BREEDING AND ACCLIMATIZATION INSTITUTE NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cysteine; Flax; Fusarium; Glutahione; Met25; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

FUSARIUM; LINUM USITATISSIMUM;

EID: 70349975989     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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