There is more to tomato fruit colour than candidate carotenoid genes

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 195-207

  Liu, Yong Sheng ^a   Gur, Amit ^a   Ronen, Gil ^a   Causse, Mathilde ^b   Damidaux, René ^b   Buret, Michel ^c   Hirschberg, Joseph ^a   Zamir, Dani ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Researches Center of Avignon   (France)

^c UMR A 408 INRA University of Avignon   (France)

Author keywords

bin mapping; candidate genes; carotenoid biosynthesis; introgression lines (ILs); QTL; tomato

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942664982     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-7652.2003.00018.x     Document Type: Article

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