A new tomato NAC (NAM ATAF1/2/CUC2) transcription factor, SlNAC4, functions as a positive regulator of fruit ripening and carotenoid accumulation

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 119-135

  Zhu, Mingku ^a   Chen, Guoping ^a   Zhou, Shuang ^a   Tu, Yun ^a   Wang, Yi ^a   Dong, Tingting ^a   Hu, Zongli ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carotenoid; Ethylene; Fruit ripening; NAC transcription factor; RNAi; Tomato

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; CHLOROPHYLL; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; FRUIT; FRUIT RIPENING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; RNAI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOMATO; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

CAROTENOID; ETHYLENE; FRUIT RIPENING; NAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RNAI; TOMATO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CAROTENOIDS; CHLOROPHYLL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84892776920     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct162     Document Type: Article

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