Metabolic engineering of tomato fruit organic acid content guided by biochemical analysis of an introgression line

Plant Physiology

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 397-407

  Morgan, Megan J ^a   Osorio, Sonia ^b   Gehl, Bernadette ^a   Baxter, Charles J ^c   Kruger, Nicholas J ^a   George Ratcliffe, R ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^b   Sweetlove, Lee J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

^c JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84871785023     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.209619     Document Type: Article

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