Tobacco Science & Technology, 2012, 9, p. 75-81, ISSN.1002-0861
Cloning and sequence analysis of carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase gene from Nicotiana tabacum
(1) Institute of Agriculture and Life Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, P.R. China; (2) State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, P.R. China
In order to reveal the function of carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases (CCDs) in the growth and development of tobacco plants, a CCD4 (NtCCD4) gene was cloned from Samsun oriental tobacco by RT-PCR. According to sequence analysis, with a coding sequence...