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Post-transcriptional silencing of flavonol synthase mRNA in tobacco leads to fruits with arrested seed set.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Mahajan Monika, Ahuja Paramvir Singh, Yadav Sudesh Kumar
Abstract excerpt
Flavonoids are synthesized by phenylpropanoid pathway. They are known to participate in large number of physiological and biochemical processes in plants. Parthenocarpy and male sterility has earlier been reported by silencing chalcone synthase (CHS) encoding gene. Silencing of CHS has blocked the synthesis of most of useful flavonoids including flavan-3-ols and flavonols. Also, these studies could not identify...
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