The genetic architecture of branched-chain amino acid accumulation in tomato fruits

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3895-3906

  Kochevenko, Andrej ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

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

Author keywords

Branched chain amino acid; introgression line; metabolic regulation; quantitative trait analysis; reverse genetics; tomato fruit metabolism

Indexed keywords

3 ISOPROPYLMALATE DEHYDRATASE; 3-ISOPROPYLMALATE DEHYDRATASE; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; DIHYDROXYACID DEHYDRATASE; HYDROLYASE; KETOL ACID REDUCTOISOMERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLANUM; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HYDRO-LYASES; KETOL-ACID REDUCTOISOMERASE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLANUM;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 79960532547     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err091     Document Type: Article

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