Metabolic engineering of morphinan alkaloids by over‐expression and RNAi suppression of salutaridinol 7‐<i>O</i>‐acetyltransferase in opium poppy

S. Allen, Robert; A. Miller, James; A. Chitty, Julie; J. Fist, Anthony; L. Gerlach, Wayne; J. Larkin, P.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-7652.2007.00293.x

Public

Metabolic engineering of morphinan alkaloids by over‐expression and RNAi suppression of salutaridinol 7‐O‐acetyltransferase in opium poppy

Published in Plant Biotechnology Journal • Sep 13, 2007

Authors:

Robert S. Allen

James A. Miller

Julie A. Chitty

Abstract

We demonstrate that both over-expression and suppression of the gene encoding the morphinan pathway enzyme salutaridinol 7-O-acetyltransferase (SalAT) in opium poppy affects the alkaloid products that accumulate. Over-expression of the gene in most of the transgenic events resulted in an increase in...

Subject

Opium Poppy

Biology

Alkaloid

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!