Identification, functional characterization, and evolution of terpene synthases from a basal dicot

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1683-1697

  Yahyaa, Mosaab ^a   Matsuba, Yuki ^b   Brandt, Wolfgang ^c   Doron Faigenboim, Adi ^a   Bar, Einat ^a   McClain, Alan ^b   Davidovich Rikanati, Rachel ^a   Lewinsohn, Efraim ^a   Pichersky, Eran ^b   Ibdah, Mwafaq ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CINEOLE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLOHEXANOL DERIVATIVE; ISOMERASE; PINENE CYCLASE I; PLANT PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TERPENE; TERPENE SYNTHASE; TRANSFERASE;

CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; LAURUS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLOHEXANOLS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, REPORTER; INTRAMOLECULAR LYASES; LAURUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOTERPENES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TERPENES;

EID: 84942129792     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00930     Document Type: Article

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