Comprehensive metabolic profiling and phenotyping of interspecific introgression lines for tomato improvement

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 447-454

  Schauer, Nicolas ^a   Semel, Yaniv ^b   Roessner, Ute ^c   Gur, Amit ^b   Balbo, Ilse ^a   Carrari, Fernando ^a   Pleban, Tzili ^b   Perez Melis, Alicia ^a   Bruedigam, Claudia ^a   Kopka, Joachim ^a   Willmitzer, Lothar ^a   Zamir, Dani ^b   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; CULTIVATION; GENES; MORPHOLOGY;

INTERSPECIFIC INTROGRESSION LINES; LOCI; TOMATO;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT METABOLISM; PLANT YIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SPECIES CULTIVATION; TOMATO;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 33645746673     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1192     Document Type: Article

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