A gene stacking approach leads to engineered plants with highly increased galactan levels in Arabidopsis

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gondolf, Vibe M ^a,b,c   Stoppel, Rhea ^a,b   Ebert, Berit ^a,b,c   Rautengarten, Carsten ^a,b   Liwanag, April J M ^a,b   Loqué, Dominique ^a,b   Scheller, Henrik V ^a,b,d  

^a JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Artificial positive feedback loop; Galactan; GalS1; Gene stacking; NST1; Pectin; Plant cell wall; Populus; UDP glucose 4 epimerase

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BIOFUEL; GALACTAN; GALACTOSE; PLANT PROTEIN; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 4 EPIMERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BREEDING; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; POPULUS; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOFUELS; BREEDING; CELL WALL; GALACTANS; GALACTOSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULUS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; UDPGLUCOSE 4-EPIMERASE;

EID: 84988683721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12870-014-0344-x     Document Type: Article

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