Characterization of isoflavone synthase gene from Psoralea corylifolia: A medicinal plant

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 747-755

  Misra, Prashant ^a   Pandey, Ashutosh ^a   Tewari, Shri Krishna ^a   Nath, Pravendra ^a   Trivedi, Prabodh Kumar ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Isoflavone; Metabolic engineering; PcIFS; Transgenic plant

Indexed keywords

ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; ISOFLAVONE SYNTHASE; OXYGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSORALEA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; ISOFLAVONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGENASES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PSORALEA;

CULLEN CORYLIFOLIA; FABACEAE; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PSORALEA;

EID: 77953872964     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-010-0861-5     Document Type: Article

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