Virus-Induced Silencing of Key Genes Leads to Differential Impact on Withanolide Biosynthesis in the Medicinal Plant, Withania somnifera

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 262-274

  Agarwal, Aditya Vikram ^a,b   Singh, Deeksha ^a,c   Dhar, Yogeshwar Vikram ^a,c   Michael, Rahul ^a,c   Gupta, Parul ^a,d   Chandra, Deepak ^b   Trivedi, Prabodh Kumar ^a,c  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

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

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Phenotypic modulations; Transcriptional modulation; Triterpenoid biosynthetic pathway; Virus induced gene silencing; Withania somnifera

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; CHLOROPHYLL; ERYTHRITOL; ERYTHRITOL 4-PHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; MEVALONIC ACID; PLANT PROTEIN; SUGAR PHOSPHATE; WITHANOLIDE;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT VIRUS; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WITHANIA;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CAROTENOIDS; CHLOROPHYLL; DOWN-REGULATION; ERYTHRITOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; MEVALONIC ACID; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT VIRUSES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SUGAR PHOSPHATES; WITHANIA; WITHANOLIDES;

EID: 85042232947     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcx179     Document Type: Article

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