Carotenoid content and root color of cultivated carrot: A candidate-gene association study using an original broad unstructured population

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Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Jourdan, Matthieu ^a,b,c   Gagné, Séverine ^a,b,c   Dubois Laurent, Cécile ^a,b,c   Maghraoui, Mohamed ^a,b,c   Huet, Sébastien ^a,b,c   Suel, Anita ^a,b,c   Hamama, Latifa ^a,b,c   Briard, Mathilde ^a,b,c   Peltier, Didier ^a,b,c   Geoffriau, Emmanuel ^a,b,c  

^a AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^c Universite d'Angers   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CAROTENE; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; CIS TRANS ISOMERASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHYTOENE DEHYDROGENASE; PLANT PROTEIN; ZEAXANTHIN EPOXIDASE;

ARTICLE; CAROTENOID ISOMERASE GENE; CARROT; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HAPLOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYTOENE DESATURASE GENE; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; PLASTID TERMINAL OXDASE GENE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ZEAXANTHIN EPOXYDASE GENE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS;

DAUCUS CAROTA;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CAROTENOIDS; CIS-TRANS-ISOMERASES; DAUCUS CAROTA; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84921927933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116674     Document Type: Article

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