Expression of a bacterial, phenylpropanoid-metabolizing enzyme in tobacco reveals essential roles of phenolic precursors in normal leaf development and growth

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 260-274

  Merali, Zara ^a   Mayer, Melinda J ^a   Parker, Mary L ^a   Michael, Anthony J ^a,b   Smith, Andrew C ^a   Waldron, Keith W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1-PHENYLPROPANOL; 4 HYDROXYCINNAMOYL COA HYDRATASE LYASE; 4-HYDROXYCINNAMOYL-COA HYDRATASE-LYASE; HYDROLYASE; LIGNIN; PHENYLPROPANOL; PHYTOHORMONE; PROPANOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDRO-LYASES; LIGNIN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROPANOLS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; TOBACCO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84860738662     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2012.01583.x     Document Type: Article

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