Exploiting SNPs for biallelic CRISPR mutations in the outcrossing woody perennial Populus reveals 4-coumarate: CoA ligase specificity and redundancy

New Phytologist

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 298-301

  Zhou, Xiaohong ^a,b,c   Jacobs, Thomas B ^a   Xue, Liang Jiao ^a,b   Harding, Scott A ^a,b   Tsai, Chung Jui ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Nanjing Forestry University ^*  (United States)

^c NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Populus; 4 coumarate:CoA ligase (4CL); Chlorogenic acid; Flavonoid; Genome editing; Lignin; Phenylpropanoid

Indexed keywords

POPULUS;

4-COUMARATE-COA LIGASE; COENZYME A LIGASE;

ALLELE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WOOD;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; COENZYME A LIGASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULUS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; WOOD;

EID: 84942827085     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13470     Document Type: Letter

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