Down-regulation of small rubber particle protein expression affects integrity of rubber particles and rubber content in Taraxacum brevicorniculatum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Hillebrand, Andrea ^a,b   Post, Janina J ^a   Wurbs, David ^a   Wahler, Daniela ^a   Lenders, Malte ^a   Krzyzanek, Vladislav ^a,c   Prüfer, Dirk ^a,b   Gronover, Christian Schulze ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATEX; RUBBER; SMALL RUBBER PARTICLE PROTEIN; SMALL RUBBER PARTICLE PROTEIN 1; SMALL RUBBER PARTICLE PROTEIN 2; SMALL RUBBER PARTICLE PROTEIN 3; SMALL RUBBER PARTICLE PROTEIN 4; SMALL RUBBER PARTICLE PROTEIN 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DANDELION; DISPERSION; DOWN REGULATION; HIGH RESOLUTION TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IN VIVO STUDY; LATICIFERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLANT PARAMETERS; POLYDISPERSITY; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TARAXACUM BREVICORNICULATUM; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WEIGHT; WILD TYPE;

DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LATEX; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; RUBBER; TARAXACUM;

TARAXACUM; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE;

EID: 84864229932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041874     Document Type: Article

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