The jasmonate-responsive AaMYC2 transcription factor positively regulates artemisinin biosynthesis in Artemisia annua

New Phytologist

Volumn 210, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1269-1281

  Shen, Qian ^a   Lu, Xu ^b   Yan, Tingxiang ^a   Fu, Xueqing ^a   Lv, Zongyou ^a   Zhang, Fangyuan ^a   Pan, Qifang ^a   Wang, Guofeng ^a   Sun, Xiaofen ^a   Tang, Kexuan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AaMYC2; Artemisia annua; Artemisinin; Metabolic regulation; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HORMONE; MALARIA; SECONDARY METABOLITE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTEMISIA ANNUA;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; JASMONIC ACID; JASMONIC ACID METHYL ESTER; OXYLIPIN; PHYTOHORMONE; PLANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTEMISIA ANNUA; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACETATES; ARTEMISIA ANNUA; ARTEMISININS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CYCLOPENTANES; GENE EXPRESSION; OXYLIPINS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84965149417     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13874     Document Type: Article

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