A R2R3-MYB Transcription Factor from Epimedium sagittatum Regulates the Flavonoid Biosynthetic Pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Wenjun ^a   Sun, Wei ^b   Lv, Haiyan ^a   Luo, Ming ^b   Zeng, Shaohua ^b   Pattanaik, Sitakanta ^c   Yuan, Ling ^c   Wang, Ying ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FLAVANOID; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR R2R3 MYB1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANTHOCYANIDIN SYNTHASE GENE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIHYDROFLAVANOL 4 REDUCTASE GENE; EPIMEDIUM; EPIMEDIUM SAGITTATUM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NTAN1A GENE; NTAN1B GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT LEAF; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; UPREGULATION;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTHOCYANINS; ARABIDOPSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; EPIMEDIUM; FLAVONOIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OXYGENASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84881003489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070778     Document Type: Article

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