Systems biology of tomato fruit development: Combined transcript, protein, and metabolite analysis of tomato transcription factor (nor, rin) and ethylene receptor (Nr) mutants reveals novel regulatory interactions

Plant Physiology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 405-425

  Osorio, Sonia ^a   Alba, Rob ^b   Damasceno, Cynthia M B ^c   Lopez Casado, Gloria ^c   Lohse, Marc ^a   Zanor, Maria Inés ^a   Tohge, Takayuki ^a   Usadel, Björn ^a   Rose, Jocelyn K C ^c   Fei, Zhangjun ^b   Giovannoni, James J ^b   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

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

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

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 80052398971     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.175463     Document Type: Article

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