Vol.28 No.3(2006 June):453-456

Transcriptional Regulation of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis in Plants
Jiang Wu, Jian-Hui Cheng*, Fu-Chen Yang
(Institute of Horticulture, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou 310021, China)

Abstract Transcriptional regulation is one of important steps regulating structure genes expression of anthocyanin biosynthetic pathway in plants. During last ten years, regulating anthocyanin biosynthesis by activation or repression of transcription factor has become research emphasis of many botanist. Carry on the introduction to the process of anthocyanin biosynthesis and transportation, vacuolar deposition and sequestration, transcription factors and regulatory role, and application of transcriptional regulation to plant genetic improvement.

Key words anthocyanin; biosynthesis; transcriptional regulation

Received: November 3, 2005 Accepted: February 21, 2006

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (No.Y304371)

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