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| Pic Courtesy: Solanaceae Co-ordinated Agri Project |
Scientists from Nanjing Agricultural University of China have cloned and characterized a potato StAN11 gene involved in anthocyanin biosynthesis regulation. They cloned StAN11, a WD40-repeat gene from potato cultivar Chieftain (Solanum tuberosum L.). StAN11
(HQ599506) contained no intron and its open reading frame (ORF) was
1,029 bp long, encoding a putative protein of 342 amino acids. To verify its role in anthocyanin biosynthesis, StAN11 was
inserted behind the CaMV-35S promoter of pCMBIA1304 and the
recombination vector was introduced into the potato cultivar Désirée
plants by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.
