branched-chain amino acids catabolism

[Mary Polacco]

You may wish to try your query at the Plant EST service in Minnesota:

http://lenti.med.umn.edu/~shoopo/sample.html

I just typed in 
	alpha-ketoacid 
and pulled up a bunch of EST's - the type item on the long list of
matches was an Arabidopsis EST with similarity to your protein of
interest-

-Mary Polacco