Article
Genetic analysis of pathway regulation for enhancing branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis in plants.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Aug 2010
Chen Hao, Saksa Kristen, Zhao Feiyi, Qiu Joyce, Xiong Liming
Abstract excerpt
The branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) valine, leucine and isoleucine are essential amino acids that play critical roles in animal growth and development. Animals cannot synthesize these amino acids and must obtain them from their diet. Plants are the ultimate source of these essential nutrients,...
Topics
- Acetolactate Synthase
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Amino Acids, Branched-Chain
- Arabidopsis
- Arabidopsis Proteins
- Biosynthetic Pathways
- Cloning, Molecular
- Drug Resistance
- Feedback, Physiological
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Leucine
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Protein Subunits
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction