Comparative genomics reveals candidate carotenoid pathway regulators of ripening watermelon fruit

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Grassi, Stefania ^a,b   Piro, Gabriella ^a   Lee, Je M ^b   Zheng, Yi ^b   Fei, Zhangjun ^b   Dalessandro, Giuseppe ^a   Giovannoni, James J ^b   Lenucci, Marcello S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotenoid biosynthesis; Citrullus lanatus; Fruit ripening; Gene expression; Isoprenoids; Non climacteric fruits; Transcription factors; Watermelon

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; LYCOPENE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CROP IMPROVEMENT; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; FRUIT RIPENING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOMICS; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REGULATOR GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SYNTHESIS; TOMATO; WATERMELON; BIOSYNTHESIS; CITRULLUS; DRUG EFFECTS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CITRULLUS LANATUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

CAROTENOIDS; CITRULLUS; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

EID: 84887399660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-781     Document Type: Article

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