Genotype-dependent response to carbon availability in growing tomato fruit

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1186-1204

  Prudent, Marion ^a,b   Bertin, Nadia ^a   Génard, Michel ^a   Muños, Stéphane ^b   Rolland, Sophie ^b   Garcia, Virginie ^c   Petit, Johann ^c   Baldet, Pierre ^c   Rothan, Christophe ^c   Causse, Mathilde ^b  

^a Domaine Saint Paul   (France)

^b Researches Center of Avignon   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Fruit growth; Gene expression; Genotype environment interaction; Hormone; Metabolism; Regulations; Solanum lycopersicum; Stress response; Sugar; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CARBON; PLANT RNA;

CARBON; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH RATE; HORMONE; METABOLISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; SUGAR;

ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TOMATO;

CARBON; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOTYPE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RNA, PLANT;

LYCOPERSICON CHMIELEWSKII; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 77954720432     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2010.02139.x     Document Type: Article

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