The PH gene determines fruit acidity and contributes to the evolution of sweet melons

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Cohen, Shahar ^a   Itkin, Maxim ^a   Yeselson, Yelena ^a   Tzuri, Galil ^a   Portnoy, Vitaly ^a   Harel Baja, Rotem ^a   Lev, Shery ^a   Saâ Ar, Uzi ^a   Davidovitz Rikanati, Rachel ^a   Baranes, Nadine ^a   Bar, Einat ^a   Wolf, Dalia ^a   Petreikov, Marina ^a   Shen, Shmuel ^a   Ben Dor, Shifra ^b   Rogachev, Ilana ^b   Aharoni, Asaph ^b   Ast, Tslil ^b   Schuldiner, Maya ^b   Belausov, Eduard ^a   Eshed, Ravit ^a   Ophir, Ron ^a   Sherman, Amir ^a   Frei, Benedikt ^c   Neuhaus, H Ekkehard ^c   Xu, Yimin ^d   Fei, Zhangjun ^d   Giovannoni, Jim ^d   Lewinsohn, Efraim ^a   Tadmor, Yaakov ^a   Paris, Harry S ^a   Katzir, Nurit ^a   Burger, Yosef ^a   Schaffer, Arthur A ^a   more..

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^d United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; AMINO ACID; PH PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CITRIC ACID; MALIC ACID; MALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ACIDITY; AMINO ACID; FRUIT; MUTATION; PH; SUGAR; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

ACIDITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLONING; CUCUMBER; FRUIT ACIDITY; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; FRUIT JUICE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MELON; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TOMATO; CHEMISTRY; FRUIT; GENETICS; MUSKMELON; PH;

CENTRAL ASIA;

CITRIC ACID; CUCUMIS MELO; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; FRUIT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALATES; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84902185697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5026     Document Type: Article

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