Branched-chain and aromatic amino acid catabolism into aroma volatiles in Cucumis melo L. fruit

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1111-1123

  Gonda, Itay ^a,b   Bar, Einat ^a   Portnoy, Vitaly ^a   Lev, Shery ^a   Burger, Joseph ^a   Schaffer, Arthur A ^a   Tadmor, Ya'Akov ^a   Gepstein, Shimon ^b   Giovannoni, James J ^c   Katzir, Nurit ^a   Lewinsohn, Efraim ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid metabolism; Amino acid transaminase; Aromatic amino acids; Branched chain amino acids; Cucumis melo; Melon aroma; Volatile aroma compounds

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC AMINO ACID; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANTALOUPE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; VOLATILIZATION;

AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; CUCUMIS MELO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; VOLATILIZATION;

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77649250242     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erp390     Document Type: Article

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