The phenylpropanoid pathway is controlled at different branches by a set of R2R3-MYB C2 repressors in grapevine

Plant Physiology

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1448-1470

  Cavallini, Erika ^a   Matus, José Tomás ^b   Finezzo, Laura ^a   Zenoni, Sara ^a   Loyola, Rodrigo ^c   Guzzo, Flavia ^a   Schlechter, Rudolf ^c   Ageorges, Agnès ^d   Arce Johnson, Patricio ^c   Tornielli, Giovanni Battista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d SPO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PETUNIA; PETUNIA X HYBRIDA; VITIS; VITIS VINIFERA;

1-PHENYLPROPANOL; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FLAVONOID; PLANT PROTEIN; PROPANOL; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PETUNIA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PROTEIN MOTIF; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VITIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DOWN-REGULATION; FLAVONOIDS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PETUNIA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROPANOLS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOBACCO; VITIS;

EID: 84926166373     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.256172     Document Type: Article

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