A transcriptomics-based kinetic model for ethylene biosynthesis in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) fruit: Development, validation and exploration of novel regulatory mechanisms

New Phytologist

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 952-963

  Van de Poel, Bram ^a   Bulens, Inge ^a   Hertog, Maarten L A T M ^a   Nicolai, Bart M ^a,b   Geeraerd, Annemie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Flanders Centre of Postharvest Technology (VCBT)   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ethylene biosynthesis; Gene expression; Kinetic modeling; Network model; Systems biology; Tomato

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID; DATA SET; ETHYLENE; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORMONE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROTEIN; PROTEOMICS; REGULATORY APPROACH; RIPENING;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

1-AMINOCYCLOPROPANE-1-CARBOXYLIC ACID OXIDASE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CALIBRATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOMATO;

AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CALIBRATION; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; KINETICS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84898030115     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12685     Document Type: Article

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