Silencing an N-Acyltransferase-Like Involved in Lignin Biosynthesis in Nicotiana attenuata Dramatically Alters Herbivory-Induced Phenolamide Metabolism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Gaquerel, Emmanuel ^a   Kotkar, Hemlata ^a,b   Onkokesung, Nawaporn ^a,d   Galis, Ivan ^a,c   Baldwin, Ian T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; CHLOROGENIC ACID; CRYPTOCHLOROGENIC ACID; LIGNIN; N ACYLTRANSFERASE; N',N'' DICOUMAROYLPUTRESCINE; N',N'' DICOUMAROYLSPERMIDINE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHENOLAMIDE; POLYAMINE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN MYB8; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HERBIVORY; LIGNIFICATION; MANDUCA SEXTA; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; N ACYLTRANSFERASE GENE; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA ATTENUATA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT LEAF; POLYAMINE METABOLISM; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMIDES; ANIMALS; COUMARIC ACIDS; GENE SILENCING; HERBIVORY; LIGNIN; MANDUCA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NICOTINE; PHENOLS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STEMS; PUTRESCINE; QUINIC ACID; SOLUBILITY; SPERMIDINE; TOBACCO;

EID: 84877934367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062336     Document Type: Article

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