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SUBMITTER: Liu CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC137925 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Chang-Jun CJ Blount Jack W JW Steele Christopher L CL Dixon Richard A RA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20021016 22
In view of their perceived chemopreventive activities against hormone-dependent cancers, cardiovascular disease, and postmenopausal ailments, there is considerable interest in engineering plants to contain isoflavone phytoestrogens. However, attempts to date have only resulted in low levels of isoflavone accumulation in non-legumes. Introducing soybean isoflavone synthase (IFS) into Arabidopsis thaliana leads to accumulation of low levels of genistein glycosides. Leaves of wild-type A. thaliana ...[more]