Tomato fruit photosynthesis is seemingly unimportant in primary metabolism and ripening but plays a considerable role in seed development

Plant Physiology

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1650-1663

  Lytovchenko, Anna ^a   Eickmeier, Ira ^a,d   Pons, Clara ^b   Osorio, Sonia ^a   Szecowka, Marek ^a   Lehmberg, Kerstin ^a   Arrivault, Stephanie ^a   Tohge, Takayuki ^a   Pineda, Benito ^b   Anton, Maria Teresa ^b   Hedtke, Boris ^c   Lu, Yinghong ^a   Fisahn, Joachim ^a   Bock, Ralph ^a   Stitt, Mark ^a   Grimm, Bernhard ^c   Granell, Antonio ^b   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 82755171866     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.186874     Document Type: Article

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