Metabolite and target transcript analyses during Crocus sativus stigma development

Phytochemistry

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1009-1016

  Moraga, Ángela Rubio ^a   Rambla, José Luis ^b   Ahrazem, Oussama ^a   Granell, Antonio ^b   Gómez Gómez, Lourdes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apocarotenoids; Crocetin; Crocus sativus; Gene expression; Iridaceae; Saffron; Stigma; Terpenoids; Volatiles

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; CYCLOHEXENE DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSIDE; PICROCROCIN; TERPENE;

ARTICLE; CROCUS; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; VOLATILIZATION;

CAROTENOIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CROCUS; CYCLOHEXENES; FLOWERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSIDES; TERPENES; VOLATILIZATION;

CROCUS; CROCUS SATIVUS; IRIDACEAE;

EID: 67649839970     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2009.04.022     Document Type: Article

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