Highly methyl esterified seeds is a pectin methyl esterase involved in embryo development

Plant Physiology

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 725-737

  Levesque Tremblay, Gabriel ^a   Müller, Kerstin ^c   Mansfield, Shawn D ^b   Haughn, George W ^a  

^a Departments of Botany   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CARBOXYLESTERASE; HIGHLY METHYL ESTERIFIED SEEDS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MUCILAGE; PECTIN; PECTINESTERASE; POLYGALACTURONIC ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL SIZE; EMBRYOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESTERIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUCILAGE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTIBODIES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CELL SIZE; ESTERIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PECTINS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT MUCILAGE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDS;

EID: 84922356521     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.255604     Document Type: Article

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