A feedback-insensitive isopropylmalate synthase affects acylsugar composition in cultivated and wild tomato

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1821-1835

  Ning, Jing ^a   Moghe, Gaurav D ^a   Leong, Bryan ^a   Kim, Jeongwoon ^b   Ofner, Itai ^c   Wang, Zhenzhen ^a   Adams, Christopher ^d   Jones, A Daniel ^a,b   Zamir, Dani ^c   Last, Robert L ^a,b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 ISOPROPYLMALATE SYNTHASE; CARBOHYDRATE; FATTY ACID; PLANT PROTEIN; SUCROSE;

ACYLATION; ALLELE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; KINETICS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SOLANUM; TOMATO; TRICHOME;

2-ISOPROPYLMALATE SYNTHASE; ACYLATION; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FATTY ACIDS; KINETICS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOLANUM; SUCROSE; TRICHOMES;

EID: 84946207432     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00474     Document Type: Article

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