Identification of a BAHD acetyltransferase that produces protective acyl sugars in tomato trichomes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 16377-16382

  Schilmiller, Anthony L ^a   Charbonneau, Amanda L ^a,b   Last, Robert L ^a,b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A ACYLTRANSFERASE; BAHD ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENCE; GENE SILENCING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRICHOME;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUCROSE;

HEXAPODA; LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; LYCOPERSICON PENNELLII; SOLANACEAE; TETRA;

EID: 84867047345     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207906109     Document Type: Article

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