Molecular characterization of Glycine max squalene synthase genes in seed phytosterol biosynthesis

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 73, Issue , 2013, Pages 23-32

  Nguyen, Hanh T M ^a,b   Neelakadan, Anjanasree K ^a,c   Quach, Truyen N ^a,b   Valliyodan, Babu ^a   Kumar, Rajesh ^a,d   Zhang, Zhanyuan ^a   Nguyen, Henry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES   (India)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Campesterol; Sitosterol; Soybean; Sterol; Stigmasterol; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

CAMPESTEROL; CARBON; CHOLESTEROL; CLIONASTEROL; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; GAMMA-SITOSTEROL; ISOPRENOID PHOSPHATE; PHYTOSTEROL; SESQUITERPENE; SITOSTEROL; SITOSTEROL DERIVATIVE; SQUALENE; SQUALENE SYNTHASE; STEROL; STIGMASTEROL; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WATER;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DROUGHT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PROMOTER REGION; SOYBEAN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; CAMPESTEROL; SITOSTEROL; SOYBEAN; STEROL; STIGMASTEROL; TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBON; CHOLESTEROL; DROUGHTS; FARNESYL-DIPHOSPHATE FARNESYLTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYTOSTEROLS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYISOPRENYL PHOSPHATES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEEDS; SESQUITERPENES; SITOSTEROLS; SOYBEANS; SQUALENE; STIGMASTEROL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER;

EID: 84883756960     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2013.07.018     Document Type: Article

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