Genome-wide analysis of branched-chain amino acid levels in Arabidopsis Seeds

Plant Cell

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4827-4843

  Angelovici, Ruthie ^a   Lipka, Alexander E ^b   Deason, Nicholas ^a   Gonzalez Jorge, Sabrina ^a   Lin, Haining ^c   Cepela, Jason ^d   Buell, Robin ^d   Gore, Michael A ^b   DellaPenna, Dean ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BCAT1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; BCAT2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; PLANT SEED;

AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME, PLANT; HAPLOTYPES; NUTRITIVE VALUE; SEEDS; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 84893084313     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.119370     Document Type: Article

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