Genetic dissection of vitamin e biosynthesis in tomato

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3781-3798

  Almeida, Juliana ^a   Quadrana, Leandro ^b   Asís, Ramón ^c   Setta, Nathalia ^a   De Godoy, Fabiana ^a   Bermúdez, Luisa ^a   Otaiza, Santiago N ^c   Corrêa Da Silva, Junia V ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^d   Carrari, Fernando ^b   Rossi, Magdalena ^a  

^a Departamento de Botâ Nica IB USP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fruit metabolism; Solanum pennellii; tocopherol; tomato; vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOMATO;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VITAMIN E;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; LYCOPERSICON PENNELLII;

EID: 79959937810     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err055     Document Type: Article

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