Laticifer-specific cis-prenyltransferase silencing affects the rubber, triterpene, and inulin content of Taraxacum brevicorniculatum

Plant Physiology

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1406-1417

  Post, Janina ^a   van Deenen, Nicole ^a   Fricke, Julia ^a   Kowalski, Natalie ^a,c   Wurbs, David ^a,f   Schaller, Hubert ^b   Eisenreich, Wolfgang ^c   Huber, Claudia ^c   Twyman, Richard M ^d   Prüfer, Dirk ^e   Gronover, Christian Schulze ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^f KWS SAAT SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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TARAXACUM;

EID: 84857946109     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.187880     Document Type: Article

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