Enhanced seed carotenoid levels and branching in transgenic brassica napus expressing the arabidopsis miR156b gene

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 58, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 9572-9578

  Wei, Shu ^a,b   Yu, Bianyun ^a,c   Gruber, Margaret Y ^a   Khachatourians, George G ^c   Hegedus, Dwayne D ^a   Hannoufa, Abdelali ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis AtmiR156b; branching habit; Brassica napus transformation; seed carotenoids

Indexed keywords

35S PROMOTER; ARABIDOPSIS; BRANCHING HABIT; BRASSICA NAPUS; CAROTENOID PRODUCTION; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; EXPRESSION PATTERNS; PLANT BREEDING; SEED QUALITY; SEED WEIGHT; SEED YIELD; SHOOT BRANCHING; TRANSGENIC LINES; TRANSGENICS;

AGRICULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; PIGMENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); VIRUSES;

SEED;

CAROTENOID; MICRORNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAPESEED; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRASSICA NAPUS; CAROTENOIDS; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, PLANT; MICRORNAS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 77956233643     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: 15205118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf102635f     Document Type: Article

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