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Arabidopsis plastidial folylpolyglutamate synthetase is required for seed reserve accumulation and seedling establishment in darkness.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Meng Hongyan, Jiang Ling, Xu Bosi, Guo Wenzhu, Li Jinglai, Zhu Xiuqing, Qi Xiaoquan, Duan Lixin, Meng Xianbin, Fan Yunliu, Zhang Chunyi
Abstract excerpt
Interactions among metabolic pathways are important in plant biology. At present, not much is known about how folate metabolism affects other metabolic pathways in plants. Here we report a T-DNA insertion mutant (atdfb-3) of the plastidial folylpolyglutamate synthetase gene (AtDFB) was defective in seed reserves and skotomorphogenesis. Lower carbon (C) and higher nitrogen (N) content in the mutant seeds than that...
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