| Literature DB >> 15246659 |
Ei-ichiro Fukusaki1, Kengo Kawasaki, Shin'ichiro Kajiyama, Chung-Il An, Kenichi Suzuki, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Akio Kobayashi.
Abstract
Suppression of biosynthetic genes involved in flower color formation is an important approach for obtaining target flower colors. Here we report that flower color of the garden plant Torenia hybrida was successfully modulated by RNA interference (RNAi) against a gene of chalcone synthase (CHS), a key enzyme for anthocyanin and flavonoid biosynthesis. By using each of the coding region and the 3'-untranslated region of the CHS mRNA as an RNAi target, exhaustive and gene-specific gene silencing were successfully induced, and the original blue flower color was modulated to white and pale colors, respectively. Our results indicate that RNAi is quite useful for modulations of flower colors of commercially important garden plants.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID： 15246659 DOI： 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2004.02.019
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Biotechnol ISSN： 0168-1656 Impact factor: 3.307