Violet/Blue chrysanthemums-metabolic engineering of the anthocyanin biosynthetic pathway results in novel petal colors

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1696-1710

  Brugliera, Filippa ^a,b   Tao, Guo Qing ^a,c   Tems, Ursula ^a   Kalc, Gianna ^a,b   Mouradova, Ekaterina ^a,b   Price, Kym ^a   Stevenson, Kim ^a   Nakamura, Noriko ^d   Stacey, Iolanda ^a,b   Katsumoto, Yukihisa ^d   Tanaka, Yoshikazu ^d   Mason, John G ^a,c  

^a Florigene Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthocyanin; Chrysanthemum; Delphinidin; Flavonoid; Flower color; Metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ANTHOCYANIN; CHALCONE SYNTHASE; CYANIDIN; CYTOCHROME P450; DELPHINIDIN; FLAVONOID; FLAVONOID 3' HYDROXYLASE; FLAVONOID 3',5' HYDROXYLASE; FLAVONOID 3',5'-HYDROXYLASE; FLAVONOID 3'-HYDROXYLASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHRYSANTHEMUM; COLOR; FLOWER; FLOWER COLOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANTHOCYANIN; CHRYSANTHEMUM; DELPHINIDIN; FLAVONOID; FLOWER COLOR; METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANTHOCYANINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHRYSANTHEMUM; COLOR; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PIGMENTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84885911557     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct110     Document Type: Article

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