Metabolomic and elemental profiling of melon fruit quality as affected by genotype and environment

Metabolomics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-77

  Bernillon, Stéphane ^a,b   Biais, Benoît ^a   Deborde, Catherine ^a,b   Maucourt, Mickaël ^b,c   Cabasson, Cécile ^b,c   Gibon, Yves ^a,b   Hansen, Thomas H ^d   Husted, Søren ^d   de Vos, Ric C H ^e,f,g   Mumm, Roland ^e,g   Jonker, Harry ^e,f,g   Ward, Jane L ^h   Miller, Sonia J ^h   Baker, John M ^h   Burger, Joseph ⁱ   Tadmor, Ya'akov ⁱ   Beale, Michael H ^h   Schjoerring, Jan K ^d   Schaffer, Arthur A ⁱ   Rolin, Dominique ^c   Hall, Robert D ^e,f,g   Moing, Annick ^a,b   more..

^a Univ Bordeaux   (France)

^b Bordeaux Functional Genomic Center   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f NETHERLANDS METABOLOMICS CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^g CENTRE FOR BIOSYSTEMS GENOMICS   (Netherlands)

^h ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cucumis melo; Fruit quality; Metabolomics; Mineral elements; MS

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CITRULLINE; COPPER; ELEMENT; GLUTAMINE; HEXANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HEXANOIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; HYDROXYACID; HYDROXYBUTANOIC ACID ETHYL ESTER HEXOSIDE; ISOLEUCINE; PHENYLALANINE; STRONTIUM; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE; ZINC;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; CANTALOUPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCE; FRUIT (STRUCTURE); FRUIT GROWING; FRUIT QUALITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GREENHOUSE; HARVEST PERIOD; ISRAEL; MELON; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT METABOLISM; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT RESPONSE; PLANTING TIME; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHELF LIFE;

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO;

EID: 84872668420     PISSN: 15733882     EISSN: 15733890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11306-012-0429-1     Document Type: Article

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