Identification of the Pr1 Gene Product Completes the Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Pathway of Maize

Genetics

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-79

  Sharma, Mandeep ^a   Cortes Cruz, Moises ^b,d   Ahern, Kevin R ^c   McMullen, Michael ^b   Brutnell, Thomas P ^c   Chopra, Surinder ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; HYDROXYL GROUP; PR1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HYDROXYLATION; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTHOCYANINS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79955935217     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.126136     Document Type: Article

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