The 2-C-methylerythritol 4-phosphate pathway in melon is regulated by specialized isoforms for the first and last steps

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 5077-5092

  Saladié, Montserrat ^a,c   Wright, Louwrance P ^b   Garcia Mas, Jordi ^a   Rodriguez Concepcion, Manuel ^a   Phillips, Michael A ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

2 C methylerythritol 4 phosphate; Carotenoids; Fruit development; Isoprenoid biosynthesis; Melon; Metabolite profiling; Phylogenetics; Transcript profiling

Indexed keywords

2-C-METHYLERYTHRITOL 4-PHOSPHATE; CAROTENOID; DEOXYXYLULOSE-5-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; ERYTHRITOL; ISOPROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SUGAR PHOSPHATE; TRANSFERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MELON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CAROTENOIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CUCUMIS MELO; ERYTHRITOL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUGAR PHOSPHATES; TRANSFERASES;

CUCUMIS;

EID: 84907408786     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru275     Document Type: Article

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