Sculpting the maturation, softening and ethylene pathway: The influences of microRNAs on tomato fruits

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zuo, Jinhua ^a   Zhu, Benzhong ^a   Fu, Daqi ^a   Zhu, Yi ^a   Ma, Yuanzheng ^a   Chi, Lihong ^a   Ju, Zheng ^a   Wang, Yunxiang ^a   Zhai, Baiqiang ^a   Luo, Yunbo ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACS PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE INSENSTIVE 2 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PECTATE LYASE; PROTEIN CTR1; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; PLANT RNA; POLYSACCHARIDE LYASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; FRUIT RIPENING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT METABOLISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOMATO; FRUIT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICRORNAS; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84855481496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-7     Document Type: Article

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