An evaluation of the basis and consequences of a stay-green mutation in the navel negra citrus mutant using transcriptomic and proteomic profiling and metabolite analysis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1300-1315

  Alós, Enriqueta ^a,d   Roca, María ^b   Iglesias, Domingo José ^a   Mínguez Mosquera, Maria Isabel ^b   Damasceno, Cynthia Maria Borges ^c   Thannhauser, Theodore William ^c   Rose, Jocelyn Kenneth Campbell ^c   Talón, Manuel ^a   Cercós, Manuel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS IVIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE LA GRASA   (Spain)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRUS; CITRUS SINENSIS;

CARBOXYLESTERASE; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLLASE; ELIP PROTEIN, PLANT; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; PROTEOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; SWEET ORANGE; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CHLOROPHYLL; CITRUS SINENSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEOME;

EID: 49049108073     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.119917     Document Type: Article

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