Overexpression of polyphenol oxidase in transgenic tomato plants results in enhanced bacterial disease resistance

L Li, JC Steffens - Planta, 2002 - Springer
Polyphenol oxidases (PPOs; EC 1.10. 3.2 or EC 1.14. 18.1) catalyzing the oxygen-
dependent oxidation of phenols to quinones are ubiquitous among angiosperms and …

Antisense downregulation of polyphenol oxidase results in enhanced disease susceptibility

P Thipyapong, MD Hunt, JC Steffens - Planta, 2004 - Springer
Abstract Polyphenol oxidases (PPOs; EC 1.14. 18.1 or EC 1.10. 3.2) catalyze the oxidation
of phenolics to quinones, highly reactive intermediates whose secondary reactions are …

Functional analysis of polyphenol oxidases by antisense/sense technology

P Thipyapong, MJ Stout, J Attajarusit - Molecules, 2007 - mdpi.com
Polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) catalyze the oxidation of phenolics to quinones, the secondary
reactions of which lead to oxidative browning and postharvest losses of many fruits and …

Tomato polyphenol oxidase (differential response of the polyphenol oxidase F promoter to injuries and wound signals)

P Thipyapong, JC Steffens - Plant physiology, 1997 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) are encoded
by a seven-member gene family that exhibits complex patterns of differential expression …

Polyphenol oxidase

JC Steffens, E Harel, MD Hunt - Genetic engineering of plant secondary …, 1994 - Springer
Polyphenol oxidases (PPO) catalyze the one-and two-electron oxidation of phenols to
quinones at the expense of O 2. PPOs are copper metalloproteins catalyzing the o …

The purification of polyphenol oxidase from tobacco

C Shi, Y Dai, X Xu, Y Xie, Q Liu - Protein expression and purification, 2002 - Elsevier
A new polyphenol oxidase (PPO) named PPO II was purified from tobacco (Nicotiana
tobacum) by using acetone powder, ammonium sulfate precipitation, and column …

Recent advances in polyphenol oxidase-mediated plant stress responses

J Zhang, X Sun - Phytochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Plant polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) are ubiquitous copper metalloenzymes with a
biochemistry that has been known for more than a century. By the 1990s, biologists began to …

Overexpression of tomato polyphenol oxidase increases resistance to common cutworm

S Mahanil, J Attajarusit, MJ Stout, P Thipyapong - Plant science, 2008 - Elsevier
Polyphenol oxidases (PPOs), which catalyze the oxidation of phenolics to quinones, have
been reported to confer resistance to Pseudomonas syringae and are thought to be involved …

Defensive roles of polyphenol oxidase in plants

CP Constabel, R Barbehenn - Induced plant resistance to herbivory, 2008 - Springer
Plant polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) are widely distributed and well-studied oxidative
enzymes, and their effects on discoloration in damaged and diseased plant tissues have …

cDNA cloning and expression of potato polyphenol oxidase

MD Hunt, NT Eannetta, H Yu, SM Newman… - Plant molecular …, 1993 - Springer
Polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) of plants are copper metalloproteins which catalyze the
oxidation of mono-and o-diphenols to o-diquinones. Although PPOs are believed to be …