Enhancing the scopolamine production in transgenic plants of Atropa belladonna by overexpressing pmt and h6h genes

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 309-315

  Wang, Xirong ^a   Chen, Min ^a   Yang, Chunxian ^a   Liu, Xiaoqiang ^a   Zhang, Lei ^b   Lan, Xiaozhong ^c   Tang, Kexuan ^d   Liao, Zhihua ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Tibet Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College   (China)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HYOSCYAMINE (6S) DIOXYGENASE; HYOSCYAMINE (6S)-DIOXYGENASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; PLANT RNA; PUTRESCINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE; PUTRESCINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; SCOPOLAMINE BROMIDE;

ARTICLE; ATROPA BELLADONNA; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ATROPA BELLADONNA; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, PLANT; SCOPOLAMINE HYDROBROMIDE;

ATROPA BELLADONNA;

EID: 80555150598     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2011.01506.x     Document Type: Article

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