Metabolite profiling and quantitative genetics of natural variation for flavonoids in Arabidopsis

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3749-3764

  Routaboul, Jean Marc ^a,b   Dubos, Christian ^a   Beck, Gilles ^a,c   Marquis, Catherine ^a   Bidzinski, Przemyslaw ^a,d   Loudet, Olivier ^a   Lepiniec, Loïc ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; flavonoids; metabolite profiling; natural variation; quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME P450; FLAVONOID; FLAVONOID 3' HYDROXYLASE; FLAVONOID 3'-HYDROXYLASE; MYB12 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; PHYLOGENY; PLANT SEED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BREEDING; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; FLAVONOIDS; GENETIC VARIATION; METABOLOME; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84863669380     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers067     Document Type: Article

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