Recombinant yeast as a functional tool for understanding bitterness and cucurbitacin biosynthesis in watermelon (Citrullus spp.)

Yeast

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 103-114

  Davidovich Rikanati, Rachel ^a   Shalev, Lior ^a   Baranes, Nadine ^a   Meir, Ayala ^a   Itkin, Maxim ^a   Cohen, Shahar ^a   Zimbler, Kobi ^a   Portnoy, Vitaly ^a   Ebizuka, Yutaka ^b   Shibuya, Masaaki ^b   Burger, Yosef ^a   Katzir, Nurit ^a   Schaffer, Arthur A ^a   Lewinsohn, Efraim ^a   Tadmor, Ya'akov ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bitterness; Cucurbitacins; Cucurbitadienol synthase; Watermelon

Indexed keywords

CUCURBITACIN; LANOSTEROL SYNTHASE; FLAVORING AGENT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BITTER TASTE; CLONING; CULTIVAR; DIAGNOSIS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOTE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SQUASH; WATERMELON; YEAST; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CITRULLUS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TASTE;

CITRULLUS; CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. CITROIDES; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; CUCURBITACEAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CITRULLUS; CUCURBITACINS; FLAVORING AGENTS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TASTE;

EID: 84922635745     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.3049     Document Type: Article

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