Increasing tomato fruit quality by enhancing fruit chloroplast function. A double-edged sword?

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 4589-4598

  Cocaliadis, Maria Florencia ^a   Fernández Muñoz, Rafael ^b   Pons, Clara ^a   Orzaez, Diego ^a   Granell, Antonio ^a  

^a Universitat Politècnica de València   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chloroplasts; fruit; oxidative stress; plastid; Solanum; sugars; tomato

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST; FRUIT; GENETICS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TOMATO;

CHLOROPLASTS; FRUIT; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 84905453371     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru165     Document Type: Review

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