Manipulation of the blue light photoreceptor cryptochrome 2 in tomato affects vegetative development, flowering time, and fruit antioxidant content

Plant Physiology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 199-208

  Giliberto, Leonardo ^a   Perrotta, Gaetano ^b   Pallara, Patrizia ^b   Weller, James L ^c   Fraser, Paul D ^d   Bramley, Peter M ^d   Fiore, Alessia ^a   Tavazza, Mario ^a   Giuliano, Giovanni ^a  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b Trisaia Research Center   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROPHYLL; FRUITS; GENES;

FLOWERING TIME; GENE SILENCING; INTERNODE ELONGATION; WILD-TYPE PLANTS;

VEGETATION;

BACTERIA; CHLOROPHYLLS; FRUITS; GENES; PHOTORECEPTORS; PLANTS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

ANTIOXIDANT; CRYPTOCHROME; FLAVOPROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FLOWER; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; TOMATO;

ANTIOXIDANTS; FLAVOPROTEINS; FLOWERS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 18744396696     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.051987     Document Type: Article

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