Current challenges and future potential of tomato breeding using omics approaches

Breeding Science

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 31-41

  Kusano, Miyako ^a,b   Fukushima, Atsushi ^a  

^a RIKEN Plant Science Center   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biochemical trait; Coexpression analysis; Metabolomics; Multinetwork; Solanum lycopersicum; Tomato; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 84876896152     PISSN: 13447610     EISSN: 13473735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.63.31     Document Type: Review

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