A trial of production of the plant-derived high-value protein in a plant factory: Photosynthetic photon fluxes affect the accumulation of recombinant miraculin in transgenic tomato fruits

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1171-1179

  Kato, Kazuhisa ^a   Maruyama, Shinichi ^b   Hirai, Tadayoshi ^a   Hiwasa Tanase, Kyoko ^a   Mizoguchi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Goto, Eiji ^b   Ezura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Light; Molecular farming; Recombinant miraculin; Taste modifying protein; Transgenic tomato

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

GLYCOPROTEIN; MIRACULIN PROTEIN, SYNSEPALUM DULCIFICUM; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CROSS BREEDING; FRUIT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CROSSES, GENETIC; FRUIT; GLYCOPROTEINS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 79961194238     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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