An Efficient Stevia rebaudiana Transformation System and In vitro Enzyme Assays Reveal Novel Insights into UGT76G1 Function

Scientific Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2020, Pages

  Wu, Qian ^a,b   La Hovary, Christophe ^a,c   Chen, Han Yi ^a   Li, Xu ^a   Eng, Hayde ^a,b   Vallejo, Veronica ^d   Qu, Rongda ^a   Dewey, Ralph E ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Elo Life Sciences   (United States)

^c JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d PEPSICO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ISOENZYME; PLANT PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; STEVIA; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; ISOENZYMES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; STEVIA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 85080983988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60776-y     Document Type: Article

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