4-Coumarate: CoA Ligase in Wild Carrot Cell Culture Clones Which Accumulate Different Amounts of Anthocyanin

Abstract

Single cell clones isolated from an anthocyanin-producing suspension culture of wild carrot (Daucus carota) differed widely in their anthocyanin accumulation under standard conditions (Dougall et al. 1980). Recloning of the high-accumulating and low-accumulating clones showed that the subclones from each displayed a wide range of anthocyanin accumulation. These and other data were interpreted as ruling out traditional mutations as the mechanism leading to the differences in anthocyanin accumulated by the cells. The differences could be accounted for by the ability of the cells to exist in one of two states of anthocyanin accumulation, either high or low, which are heritable but which interconvert at high frequency relative to the time required for cloning and analysis (Meins 1983).KeywordsFerulic AcidCaffeic AcidGibberellic AcidAnthocyanin AccumulationAnthocyanin ProductionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.