Methyl Jasmonate and 1-Methylcyclopropene Treatment Effects on Quinone Reductase Inducing Activity and Post-Harvest Quality of Broccoli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Ku, Kang Mo ^a   Choi, Jeong Hee ^a,b   Kim, Hyoung Seok ^a,c   Kushad, Mosbah M ^a   Jeffery, Elizabeth H ^a   Juvik, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Korea Food Research Institute   (South Korea)

^c Korean Institute for Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 METHYLCYLCOPROPENE; CHLOROPHYLL; GLUCOBRASSICIN; GLUCONASTURTIIN; GLUCOSINOLATE; JASMONIC ACID METHYL ESTER; N METHOXYINDOLE 3 CARBINOL; NEOASCORBIGEN; NEOGLUCOBRASSICIN; PHENETHYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; PROPYLENE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (PHOSPHATE) DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); SULFORAPHANE; THIOGLUCOSIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREATHING RATE; BROCCOLI; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHIOSPECIFIER MODIFIER 1 GENE; FLORET; GENE EXPRESSION; HARVEST PERIOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; POSTHARVEST PERIOD; PPH GENE; PREHARVEST PERIOD; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THIOGLUCOSIDASE GENE;

ACETATES; BRASSICA; CHLOROPHYLL; CYCLOPENTANES; CYCLOPROPANES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCOSINOLATES; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NAD(P)H DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYLIPINS; PIGMENTATION; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84885448613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077127     Document Type: Article

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