The Yield of Essential Oils in Melaleuca alternifolia (Myrtaceae) Is Regulated through Transcript Abundance of Genes in the MEP Pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Webb, Hamish ^a,b   Lanfear, Robert ^a   Hamill, John ^b   Foley, William J ^a   Külheim, Carsten ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL DEXTRO ERYTHRITOL 4 PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE; SESQUITERPENE DERIVATIVE; TEA TREE OIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CMK GENE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DXR GENE; DXS1 GENE; DXS2 GENE; DXS3 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HDS GENE; MCT GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT METABOLISM; PLANT YIELD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ERYTHRITOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MELALEUCA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OILS, VOLATILE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RNA, MESSENGER; SESQUITERPENES, GERMACRANE; SUGAR PHOSPHATES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MELALEUCA ALTERNIFOLIA; MYRTACEAE;

EID: 84875453396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060631     Document Type: Article

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