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Novel AroA from Pseudomonas putida confers tobacco plant with high tolerance to glyphosate.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Yan Hai-Qin, Chang Su-Hua, Tian Zhe-Xian, Zhang Le, Sun Yi-Cheng, Li Yan, Wang Jing, Wang Yi-Ping
Abstract excerpt
Glyphosate is a non-selective broad-spectrum herbicide that inhibits 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS, also designated as AroA), a key enzyme in the aromatic amino acid biosynthesis pathway in microorganisms and plants. Previously, we reported that a novel AroA (PpAroA1) from Pseudomonas putida had high tolerance to glyphosate, with little homology to class I or class II glyphosate-tolerant...
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