Fruit skin color and the role of anthocyanin

Acta Physiologiae Plantarum

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2879-2890

  Kayesh, Emrul ^a,b   Shangguan, Lingfei ^a   Korir, Nicholas Kibet ^c   Sun, Xin ^a   Bilkish, Nadira ^a   Zhang, Yanping ^a   Han, Jian ^a   Song, Changnian ^a   Cheng, Zong Ming ^a   Fang, Jinggui ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BSMR Agricultural University   (Bangladesh)

^c KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Anthocyanin; Biosynthesis; Fruits; Skin color; Structural genes; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; VITACEAE; VITIS VINIFERA;

EID: 84884533232     PISSN: 01375881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11738-013-1332-8     Document Type: Review

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