Pleiotropic physiological consequences of feedback-insensitive phenylalanine biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 823-835

  Huang, Tengfang ^a,b   Tohge, Takayuki ^c   Lytovchenko, Anna ^c   Fernie, Alisdair R ^c   Jander, Georg ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 phenylethylglucosinolate; ADT; arogenate dehydratase; m tyrosine; phenylalanine; tryptophan

Indexed keywords

2-PHENYLETHYLGLUCOSINOLATE; ADT; AROGENATE DEHYDRATASE; M-TYROSINE; PHENYLALANINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CLONING; ENZYME INHIBITION; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; ORGANIC ACIDS; PHOSPHATASES;

AMINO ACIDS;

3 TYROSINE; 3-TYROSINE; 5 METHYLTRYPTOPHAN; 5-METHYLTRYPTOPHAN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSINOLATE; HYDROLYASE; PHENYLALANINE; PRETYROSINE DEHYDRATASE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MOTH; MUTATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; SALT TOLERANCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GLUCOSINOLATES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HYDRO-LYASES; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOTHS; MUTATION; PHENYLALANINE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SALT-TOLERANCE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; TRICHOPLUSIA NI;

EID: 77956073063     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04287.x     Document Type: Article

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