Metabolic engineering of isoflavone genistein in Brassica napus with soybean isoflavone synthase

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1435-1442

  Li, Xiang ^a,b   Qin, Jian Chun ^a   Wang, Qing Yu ^a   Wu, Xian ^a   Lang, Chen Yong ^a   Pan, Hong Yu ^a   Gruber, Margaret Y ^b   Gao, Ming Jun ^b  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brassica napus; Genistein; GmIFS2; Metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

GENISTEIN; ISOFLAVONE SYNTHASE; OXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; RAPESEED; SOYBEAN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BRASSICA NAPUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENISTEIN; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; OXYGENASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOYBEANS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BRASSICA NAPUS; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 79960220105     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-011-1052-8     Document Type: Article

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