Transcripts of sulphur metabolic genes are co-ordinately regulated in developing seeds of common bean lacking phaseolin and major lectins

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 6283-6295

  Liao, Dengqun ^a   Pajak, Agnieszka ^a   Karcz, Steven R ^b   Patrick Chapman, B ^a   Sharpe, Andrew G ^c   Austin, Ryan S ^a   Datla, Raju ^c   Dhaubhadel, Sangeeta ^a,d   Marsolais, Frédéric ^a,d  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b SASKATOON RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Common bean; cysteine; methionine; seed proteins; sulphur metabolism; transcript profiling

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; LECTIN; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE; O ACETYLSERINE; O-ACETYLSERINE; PHASEOLIN PROTEIN, PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PLANT RNA; S METHYLCYSTEINE; S-METHYLCYSTEINE; SEED STORAGE PROTEIN; SERINE; SULFUR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHASEOLUS; PLANT SEED;

AMINO ACIDS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYSTEINE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LECTINS; METHIONINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHASEOLUS; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEED STORAGE PROTEINS; SEEDS; SERINE; SULFUR;

PHASEOLUS VULGARIS;

EID: 84868015189     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers280     Document Type: Article

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