ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase activity and starch accumulation in immature tomato fruit: The effect of a Lycopersicon hirsutum-derived introgression encoding for the large subunit

Plant Science

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 135-144

  Schaffer, Arthur A ^a   Levin, Ilan ^a   Oguz, Ismail ^a   Petreikov, Marina ^a   Cincarevsky, Felix ^a   Yeselson, Yelena ^a   Shen, Shmuel ^a   Gilboa, Nehama ^a   Bar, Moshe ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase; Lycopersicon; Molecular markers; QTL gene function; Starch; Sucrose to starch metabolism; Tomato fruit

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; STARCH;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOMATO;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; LYCOPERSICON HIRSUTUM; LYCOPERSICON PENNELLII;

EID: 0034696473     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(99)00224-1     Document Type: Article

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