Genetic Interactions Underlying the Biosynthesis and Inhibition of β-Diketones in Wheat and Their Impact on Glaucousness and Cuticle Permeability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Zhengzhi ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Li, Wanlong ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 DIKETONE; ACYL COENZYME A; ALDEHYDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CER4 GENE; CER5 GENE; CER6 GENE; CUTICLE PERMEABILITY; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLAUCOUSNESS; HYDROXYLATION; IW1 GENE; IW2 GENE; MAH1 GENE; MAH2 GENE; MAH3 GENE; MAH4 GENE; MAH5 GENE; MAH6 GENE; MAH7 GENE; MAH8 GENE; MAH9 GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PLANT STRUCTURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEEDLING; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; W1 GENE; W2 GENE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; DROUGHTS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; KETONES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PERMEABILITY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRITICUM; WAXES;

TRITICEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84872571472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054129     Document Type: Article

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