Sinapate esters in brassicaceous plants: Biochemistry, molecular biology, evolution and metabolic engineering

Planta

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-35

  Milkowski, Carsten ^a   Strack, Dieter ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acyltransferases; Arabidopsis; Brassica; Brassicaceae; Glucosyltransferases; Hydroxycinnamic acids; Metabolic engineering; Molecular evolution; Phenylpropanoids

Indexed keywords

COUMARIC ACID; ESTER; SINAPIC ACID;

BRASSICACEAE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; REVIEW; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BRASSICACEAE; COUMARIC ACIDS; ESTERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICACEAE;

EID: 77952551421     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-010-1168-z     Document Type: Review

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