Metabolism of soluble sugars in developing melon fruit: A global transcriptional view of the metabolic transition to sucrose accumulation

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-18

  Dai, Nir ^a   Cohen, Shahar ^a   Portnoy, Vitaly ^a   Tzuri, Galil ^a   Harel Beja, Rotem ^a   Pompan Lotan, Maya ^a   Carmi, Nir ^a   Zhang, Genfa ^a,d   Diber, Alex ^c   Pollock, Sarah ^c   Karchi, Hagai ^c   Yeselson, Yelena ^a   Petreikov, Marina ^a   Shen, Shmuel ^a   Sahar, Uzi ^a   Hovav, Ran ^a   Lewinsohn, Efraim ^a   Tadmor, Yakov ^a   Granot, David ^a   Ophir, Ron ^a   Sherman, Amir ^a   Fei, Zhangjun ^b   Giovannoni, Jim ^b   Burger, Yosef ^a   Katzir, Nurit ^a   Schaffer, Arthur A ^a   more..

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

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

^c Evogene Ltd   (Israel)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

454 pyrosequencing; Cucumis melo; Metabolic pathway; Sucrose; Sugar metabolism; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; SUCROSE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANTALOUPE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLUBILITY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CUCUMIS MELO; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOLUBILITY; SUCROSE;

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO;

EID: 79952232352     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-011-9757-1     Document Type: Article

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