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Disruption of phytoene desaturase gene results in albino and dwarf phenotypes in Arabidopsis by impairing chlorophyll, carotenoid, and gibberellin biosynthesis.
Cell research - 1 May 2007
Qin Genji, Gu Hongya, Ma Ligeng, Peng Yiben, Deng Xing Wang, Chen Zhangliang, Qu Li-Jia
Abstract excerpt
Carotenoids play an important role in many physiological processes in plants and the phytoene desaturase gene (PDS3) encodes one of the important enzymes in the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway. Here we report the identification and analysis of a T-DNA insertion mutant of PDS3 gene. Functional complementation confirmed that both the albino and dwarf phenotypes of the pds3 mutant resulted from functional disruption...
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