Identification of a Taraxacum brevicorniculatum rubber elongation factor protein that is localized on rubber particles and promotes rubber biosynthesis

Plant Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 609-620

  Laibach, Natalie ^a   Hillebrand, Andrea ^b   Twyman, Richard M ^c   Prüfer, Dirk ^a,b   Gronover, Christian Schulze ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c TRM Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

latex; natural rubber; rubber; rubber elongation factor; Taraxacum brevicorniculatum

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; ELONGATION; LATEXES; MACHINERY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR MASS; PROTEINS; RUBBER; RUBBER PRODUCTS;

COLLOIDAL STABILITY; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; ELONGATION FACTOR; PRENYLTRANSFERASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RUBBER BIOSYNTHESIS; RUBBER PRODUCTION; TARAXACUM BREVICORNICULATUM;

RUBBER INDUSTRY;

HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; TARAXACUM; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE;

RUBBER; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

DANDELION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; RUBBER; TARAXACUM;

EID: 84929286219     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12836     Document Type: Article

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