Strategies to Optimize the Flavonoid Content of Tomato Fruit

Recent Advances in Polyphenol Research

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 138-162

  Bovy, Arnaud G ^a,b   Gómez Roldán, Victoria ^a,c   Hall, Robert D ^a,b,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR BIOSYSTEMS GENOMICS   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

"omics" tools tomato flavonoid biosynthesis regulation; Flavones found in parsley and celery; Flavonoid biosynthetic pathway; Flavonoid pathway Metabolic engineering; Flavonoids natural biodiversity in tomato; Flavonoids subclasses; Metabolic route to flavonoids in tomato fruit; Metabolomics assisted breeding tomato flavonoid biosynthesis; Tomato flavonoids production deoxychalcones; Tomato fruit flavonoid content optimizing strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880812431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444323375.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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