The female-specific Cs-ACS1G gene of cucumber. A case of gene duplication and recombination between the non-sex-specific 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase gene and a branched-chain amino acid transaminase gene

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1217-1228

  Knopf, Ronit Rimon ^a   Trebitsh, Tova ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

1 Aminocyclopropane 1 carboxylate synthase; Branched chain amino acid transaminase; Cucumis sativus; Ethylene; Gynoecy; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

1 AMINOCYCLOPROPANECARBOXYLATE SYNTHASE; 1-AMINOCYCLOPROPANECARBOXYLATE SYNTHASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; LYASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CUCUMBER; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; LYASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSAMINASES;

CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 84878939623     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcj092     Document Type: Article

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