Flavonoid-related basic helix-loop-helix regulators, NtAn1a and NtAn1b, of tobacco have originated from two ancestors and are functionally active

Planta

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 363-375

  Bai, Yanhong ^a,c   Pattanaik, Sitakanta ^b,c   Patra, Barunava ^b,c   Werkman, Joshua R ^b   Xie, Claire H ^b,c   Yuan, Ling ^b,c  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthocyanin; bHLH transcription factor; Flavonoids; MYB transcription factor; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FLAVONOID; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTOPLAST; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTHOCYANINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; FLAVONOIDS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTOPLASTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOBACCO; ZEA MAYS;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 79960741377     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-011-1407-y     Document Type: Article

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