Genetics of flavonoid, carotenoid, and chlorophyll pigments in melon fruit rinds

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 58, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 10722-10728

  Tadmor, Yaakov ^a   Burger, Joseph ^a   Yaakov, Ilan ^a   Feder, Ari ^a   Libhaber, Smadar E ^a   Portnoy, Vitaly ^a   Meir, Ayala ^a   Tzuri, Galil ^a   Sa'Ar, Uzi ^a   Rogachev, Ilana ^b   Aharoni, Asaph ^b   Abeliovich, Hagai ^c   Schaffer, Arthur A ^a   Lewinsohn, Efraim ^a   Katzir, Nurit ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Chlorophyll; Cucumis melo; Flavonoids; Naringenin chalcone; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY; CAROTENOID PIGMENTS; CAROTENOIDS; CHALCONES; CHLOROPHYLL PIGMENTS; CUCUMIS MELO; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; FRUIT MATURATION; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; PARENTAL LINES; PHENYLPROPANOIDS; TRANSCRIPT LEVEL; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

CHLOROPHYLL; FRUITS; GENES; TRANSCRIPTION;

FLAVONOIDS;

CAROTENOID; CHALCONE DERIVATIVE; CHLOROPHYLL; FLAVONOID; MESSENGER RNA; NARINGENIN CHALCONE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FRUIT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MELON; PIGMENTATION;

CAROTENOIDS; CHALCONES; CHLOROPHYLL; CUCUMIS; FLAVONOIDS; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; RNA, MESSENGER;

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO;

EID: 78049296631     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: 15205118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf1021797     Document Type: Article

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