Isolation and functional characterisation of banana phytoene synthase genes as potential cisgenes

Planta

Volumn 236, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1585-1598

  Mlalazi, Bulukani ^a   Welsch, Ralf ^b   Namanya, Priver ^a,c   Khanna, Harjeet ^a   Geijskes, R Jason ^a   Harrison, Mark D ^a   Harding, Rob ^a   Dale, James L ^a   Bateson, Marion ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c National Agricultural Research Laboratories Kawanda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Biofortification; Carotene; Cisgenic; Intragenic; Isoprenoid; Metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; PHYTOENE SYNTHASE; TRANSFERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSA; PHYLOGENY; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; CAROTENOIDS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MUSA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 84868113690     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-012-1717-8     Document Type: Article

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