Isolation and functional characterization of a floral tissue-specific R2R3 MYB regulator from tobacco

Planta

Volumn 231, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1061-1076

  Pattanaik, Sitakanta ^a,b   Kong, Que ^a   Zaitlin, David ^b   Werkman, Joshua R ^a   Xie, Claire H ^a,b   Patra, Barunava ^b   Yuan, Ling ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthocyanin; bHLH transcription factor; Combinatorial transcriptional regulation; MYB transcription factor; Nicotiana

Indexed keywords

1-PHENYLPROPANOL; ANTHOCYANIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PHENYLPROPANOL; PROPANOL; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; PLANT GENOME; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTHOCYANINS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROPANOLS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TOBACCO; UP-REGULATION;

ANTIRRHINUM; ARABIDOPSIS; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PERILLA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77950545432     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-010-1108-y     Document Type: Article

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