Cloning and functional analysis of the promoters that upregulate carotenogenic gene expression during flower development in Gentiana lutea

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 493-504

  Zhu, Changfu ^a,b   Yang, Qingjie ^c,d   Ni, Xiuzhen ^a   Bai, Chao ^b   Sheng, Yanmin ^a   Shi, Lianxuan ^d   Capell, Teresa ^b   Sandmann, Gerhard ^e   Christou, Paul ^b,f  

^a CHANGCHUN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; GENTIANA; GENTIANA LUTEA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; CAROTENOID; CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; JASMONIC ACID METHYL ESTER; OXYLIPIN; PHYTOHORMONE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CHLOROPLAST; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DRUG EFFECTS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENTIAN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UPREGULATION;

ACETATES; BASE SEQUENCE; CAROTENOIDS; CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLOPENTANES; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENTIANA; GLUCURONIDASE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYLIPINS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASTIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84895918557     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ppl.12129     Document Type: Article

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