Combined transcription factor profiling, microarray analysis and metabolite profiling reveals the transcriptional control of metabolic shifts occurring during tomato fruit development

Plant Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 999-1013

  Rohrmann, Johannes ^a   Tohge, Takayuki ^a   Alba, Rob ^b,d   Osorio, Sonia ^a   Caldana, Camila ^a   McQuinn, Ryan ^b   Arvidsson, Samuel ^a,c   Van Der Merwe, Margaretha J ^a,e   Riaño Pachón, Diego Mauricio ^a,f   Mueller Roeber, Bernd ^a,c   Fei, Zhangjun ^b   Nesi, Adriano Nunes ^a,g   Giovannoni, James J ^b   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

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

^b Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^e STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

fleshy fruit ripening; metabolomics; microarray; quantitative RT PCR; Solanum lycopersicum; transcription factor

Indexed keywords

AILSA CRAIG; ARABIDOPSIS; CDNA MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; EXPRESSION LEVELS; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; FRUIT RIPENING; GENETIC CONTROL; LIGHT-SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; METABOLIC SHIFT; METABOLITE PROFILING; METABOLOMICS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEGATIVE REGULATORS; PHENOLIC CONTENT; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; QUANTITATIVE RT-PCR; SECONDARY METABOLITES; SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM; TOMATO FRUITS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION; WILD TYPES;

BIOMOLECULES; GENES; HARDWOODS; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; MICROARRAYS; PHENOLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

FRUITS;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOMATO;

FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 83555173359     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04750.x     Document Type: Article

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