Regulation of carotenoid biosynthesis during tomato fruit development: Expression of the gene for lycopene epsilon-cyclase is down-regulated during ripening and is elevated in the mutant Delta

Plant Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 341-351

  Ronen, Gil ^a   Cohen, Merav ^a   Zamir, Dani ^a   Hirschberg, Joseph ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DELTA CAROTENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; LINKAGE GROUP; LYCOPENE EPSILON CYCLASE; LYCOPENE; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT; PHYTOENE DESATURASE; PHYTOENE SYNTHASE; RIPENING; WILD RELATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CAROTENOIDS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HERBICIDES; INTRAMOLECULAR LYASES; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0033082657     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00381.x     Document Type: Article

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