Arctic mustard flower color polymorphism controlled by petal-specific downregulation at the threshold of the anthocyanin biosynthetic pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Dick, Cynthia A ^a   Buenrostro, Jason ^a   Butler, Timothy ^a   Carlson, Matthew L ^b   Kliebenstein, Daniel J ^c   Whittall, Justen B ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; CHALCONE SYNTHASE; FLAVONOID; ACYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRASSICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOWN REGULATION; FLOWER COLOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PETAL; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TEMPERATURE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; COLOR; FLOWER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PARRYA NUDICAULIS;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ALASKA; ANTHOCYANINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; COLOR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MUSTARD PLANT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79954523513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018230     Document Type: Article

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