Digitalis purpurea P5βR2, encoding steroid 5β-reductase, is a novel defense-related gene involved in cardenolide biosynthesis

New Phytologist

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 687-700

  Pérez Bermúdez, Pedro ^a   Moya García, Aurelio A ^b   Tuñón, Iñaki ^a   Gavidia, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cardenolide biosynthesis; Heterologous protein induction; Plant defense; Short chain dehydrogenase reductase (SDR) family; Steroid 5 reductase; Wounding and abiotic stress

Indexed keywords

CARDENOLIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DIGITALIS; MESSENGER RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROGESTERONE 5 BETA REDUCTASE; PROGESTERONE 5 BETA-REDUCTASE;

CATALYST; DICOTYLEDON; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETHYLENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PLANT DEFENSE; STEROID; WOUNDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARDENOLIDES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIGITALIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; KINETICS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DIGITALIS (GENUS); DIGITALIS PURPUREA;

EID: 74549116751     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03080.x     Document Type: Article

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