Characterization of biosynthetic pathways for the production of the volatile homoterpenes DMNT and TMTT in zea mays

Plant Cell

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2651-2665

  Richter, Annett ^a,d   Schaff, Claudia ^a   Zhang, Zhiwu ^b,f   Lipka, Alexander E ^b,g   Tian, Feng ^b,h   Köllner, Tobias G ^c   Schnee, Christiane ^c   Preiß, Susanne ^a   Irmisch, Sandra ^c,i   Jander, Georg ^d   Boland, Willhelm ^c   Gershenzon, Jonathan ^c   Buckler, Edward S ^b,e   Degenhardt, Jörg ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^d United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^e ROBERT W HOLLEY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^h CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; LINALOOL; NEROLIDOL; SESQUITERPENE; TERPENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MONOTERPENES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SESQUITERPENES;

EID: 84995443052     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.15.00919     Document Type: Article

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