RNAi down-regulation of cinnamate-4-hydroxylase increases artemisinin biosynthesis in Artemisia annua

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Kumar, Ritesh ^a   Vashisth, Divya ^a   Misra, Amita ^a   Akhtar, Md Qussen ^a   Jalil, Syed Uzma ^a   Shanker, Karuna ^a   Gupta, Madan Mohan ^a   Rout, Prashant Kumar ^a   Gupta, Anil Kumar ^a   Shasany, Ajit Kumar ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; CINNAMATE 4 MONOOXYGENASE; PLANT PROTEIN;

ARTEMISIA ANNUA; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE KNOCKDOWN; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT LEAF; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ARTEMISIA ANNUA; ARTEMISININS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANS-CINNAMATE 4-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 85020020116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep26458     Document Type: Article

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