Biochemical and molecular characterization of a flavonoid 3-O-glycosyltransferase responsible for anthocyanins and flavonols biosynthesis in freesia hybrida

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue MAR2016, 2016, Pages

  Sun, Wei ^a,b   Liang, Lingjie ^a   Meng, Xiangyu ^a   Li, Yueqing ^a   Gao, Fengzhan ^a   Liu, Xingxue ^a   Wang, Shucai ^a   Gao, Xiang ^a   Wang, Li ^a  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUIZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flavonoid; Flavonoid 3 O glycosyltransferase; Freesia hybrida; Regiospecificity; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964239548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00410     Document Type: Article

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