Improving the nutritional content of tomatoes through reprogramming their flavonoid biosynthetic pathway

Phytochemistry Reviews

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 113-123

  Colliver, S ^a   Bovy, A ^b   Collins, G ^a   Muir, S ^a   Robinson, S ^a   De Vos, C H R ^b   Verhoeyen, M E ^a  

^a UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chalcone isomerase; Chalcone synthase; Flavonol synthase; Flavonols; Health; Tomato

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CHALCONE; FLAVONOID; GLYCOSIDE; QUERCETIN;

AGING; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; FOOD INTAKE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOMATO; TRANSGENE; UPREGULATION;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0010806368     PISSN: 15687767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015848724102     Document Type: Review

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