Integrated analysis of metabolite and transcript levels reveals the metabolic shifts that underlie tomato fruit development and highlight regulatory aspects of metabolic network behavior

Plant Physiology

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1380-1396

  Carrari, Fernando ^a,b   Baxter, Charles ^c   Usadel, Björn ^a   Urbanczyk Wochniak, Ewa ^a   Zanor, Maria Ines ^a   Nunes Nesi, Adriano ^a   Nikiforova, Victoria ^a   Centero, Danilo ^a   Ratzka, Antje ^a   Pauly, Markus ^a   Sweetlove, Lee J ^c   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; FRUITS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM;

ASCORBATE SYNTHESIS; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; SUGAR PHOSPHATES;

METABOLITES;

CELL WALLS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; METABOLISM; TOMATOES;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 33845665396     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.088534     Document Type: Article

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