Tomato fruit cuticular waxes and their effects on transpiration barrier properties: Functional characterization of a mutant deficient in a very-long-chain fatty acid β-ketoacyl-CoA synthase

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 55, Issue 401, 2004, Pages 1401-1410

  Vogg, Gerd ^a   Fischer, Stephanie ^a   Leide, Jana ^a   Emmanuel, Eyal ^b   Jetter, Reinhard ^c   Levy, Avraham A ^b   Riederer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cuticle; Epicuticular wax; Intracuticular wax; Tomato; Transpiration barrier

Indexed keywords

ENZYME KINETICS; FATTY ACIDS; FRUITS; HYDROCARBONS; MUTAGENESIS; WAXES;

CUTICULAR TRANSPIRATIONS; TRANSPIRATION BARRIERS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

3 OXOACYL ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN SYNTHASE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CUT1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; WATER; WAX;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; FRUIT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT LEAF; SWEATING; TOMATO;

3-OXOACYL-(ACYL-CARRIER-PROTEIN) SYNTHASE; ACYLTRANSFERASES; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; FRUIT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; WATER; WAXES;

ARABIDOPSIS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 2942623793     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erh149     Document Type: Article

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