Isolation and functional characterization of a R2R3-MYB regulator of the anthocyanin biosynthetic pathway from Epimedium sagittatum

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 883-894

  Huang, Wenjun ^a   Khaldun, A B M ^a   Lv, Haiyan ^a   Du, Liuwen ^a,b   Zhang, Chanjuan ^c   Wang, Ying ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Anthocyanin; Epimedium; Flavonoid; MYB; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PLANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; EPIMEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTHOCYANINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPIMEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84957561943     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-015-1929-z     Document Type: Article

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