Reconstitution of plant alkane biosynthesis in yeast demonstrates that Arabidopsis ECERIFERUM1 and ECERIFERUM3 are core components of a very-long-chain alkane synthesis complex

Plant Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3106-3118

  Bernard, Amélie ^a,b   Domergue, Frédéric ^a,b   Pascal, Stéphanie ^a,b   Jetter, Reinhard ^c   Renne, Charlotte ^d   Faure, Jean Denis ^d   Haslam, Richard P ^e   Napier, Johnathan A ^e   Lessire, René ^a,b   Joubès, Jérôme ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

^e ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84865319405     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.112.099796     Document Type: Article

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