Thiourea, a ROS Scavenger, Regulates Source-to-Sink Relationship to Enhance Crop Yield and Oil Content in Brassica juncea (L.)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Pandey, Manish ^a   Srivastava, Ashish Kumar ^a   D'Souza, Stanislaus Francis ^a   Penna, Suprasanna ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; ARACHIDIC ACID; ERUSIC ACID; FATTY ACID; FRUCTOSE 1,6 BIS PHOSPHATASE; LINOLEIC ACID; MALIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PYRUVIC ACID; STARCH; STEARIC ACID; SUCROSE; SUCROSE PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; SYNTHETASE; THIOUREA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE OIL;

AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRASSICA JUNCEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; HARVEST; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SEED; PLANT STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ACETYL-COA CARBOXYLASE; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; FRUCTOSE-BISPHOSPHATASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MUSTARD PLANT; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT OILS; SEEDS; STARCH; SUCROSE; THIOUREA;

EID: 84884266901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073921     Document Type: Article

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