Pathway engineering for healthy phytochemicals leading to the production of novel flavonoids in tomato fruit

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 433-444

  Schijlen, Elio ^a   Ric De Vos, C H ^a   Jonker, Harry ^a   Van Den Broeck, Hetty ^a   Molthoff, Jos ^a   Van Tunen, Arjen ^b,c   Martens, Stefan ^d   Bovy, Arnaud ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c KEYGENE N V   (Netherlands)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flavonoids; Genetic engineering; Isoliquiritigenin; Luteolin; Resveratrol; Tomato

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CHALCONE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; STILBENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANTIOXIDANTS; CHALCONES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FLAVONOIDS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; STILBENES;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 33745080225     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2006.00192.x     Document Type: Article

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