Molecular dissection of transcriptional reprogramming of steviol glycosides synthesis in leaf tissue during developmental phase transitions in Stevia rebaudiana Bert

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Singh, Gopal ^a,b   Singh, Gagandeep ^a   Singh, Pradeep ^a   Parmar, Rajni ^a,b   Paul, Navgeet ^a   Vashist, Radhika ^a   Swarnkar, Mohit Kumar ^a   Kumar, Ashok ^a   Singh, Sanatsujat ^a   Singh, Anil Kumar ^a,c   Kumar, Sanjay ^a   Sharma, Ram Kumar ^a,b  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ACSIR   (India)

^c ICAR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSIDE; KAURANE DERIVATIVE; PLANT PROTEIN; STEVIOL;

BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; STEVIA;

DITERPENES, KAURANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLYCOSIDES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; STEVIA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85029876707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12025-y     Document Type: Article

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