Identification of a UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) involved in cellulose biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1303-1312

  Wang, Qinghua ^a   Zhang, Xue ^a   Li, Fuguang ^b   Hou, Yuxia ^a   Liu, Xingliang ^a   Zhang, Xueyan ^b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Cellulose; Cotton; GhUGP; UDP glucose pyrophosphorylase

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COTTON; ENZYMOLOGY; FLOWER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PLASMID; TEMPERATURE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELLULOSE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; GOSSYPIUM; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; UTP-GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 79958729408     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-011-1042-x     Document Type: Article

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