The fruit cuticles of wild tomato species exhibit architectural and chemical diversity, providing a new model for studying the evolution of cuticle function

Plant Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 655-666

  Yeats, Trevor H ^a   Buda, Gregory J ^a   Wang, Zhonghua ^b   Chehanovsky, Noam ^c   Moyle, Leonie C ^d   Jetter, Reinhard ^b   Schaffer, Arthur A ^c   Rose, Jocelyn K C ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cuticle; cutin; introgression lines; metabolic profiling; Solanum lycopersicum; tomato wild species; wax

Indexed keywords

CUTICLE; CUTIN; INTROGRESSION LINES; METABOLIC PROFILING; SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM; WILD SPECIES;

ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; FRUITS; GENES; ISOMERS; METABOLISM; WAXES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CUTINE; ESTER; LIGASE; MEMBRANE LIPID; TRITERPENE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WATER; WAX;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EVOLUTION; FRUIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT GENOME; TOMATO;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ESTERS; FRUIT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LIGASES; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; TRITERPENES; WATER; WAXES;

EMBRYOPHYTA; LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; LYCOPERSICON HIRSUTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 84856728515     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04820.x     Document Type: Article

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