Chloroplast to chromoplast transition in tomato fruit: Spectral confocal microscopy analyses of carotenoids and chlorophylls in isolated plastids and time-lapse recording on intact live tissue

Annals of Botany

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 291-297

  Egea, Isabel ^a,b   Bian, Wanping ^a,b,d   Barsan, Cristina ^a,b   Jauneau, Alain ^c   Pech, Jean Claude ^a,b   Latché, Alain ^a,b   Li, Zhengguo ^d   Chervin, Christian ^a,b  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; chromoplast; confocal; pigment fluorescence; Solanum lycopersicum; tomato

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; CHLOROPHYLL;

CAROTENOID; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLAST; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; FRUIT; MICROSCOPY; PLASTID; RIPENING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROPLAST; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FRUIT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLASTID; TOMATO;

CAROTENOIDS; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLASTS; FRUIT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLASTIDS;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 79961043470     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr140     Document Type: Article

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