Identification and mode of inheritance of quantitative trait loci for secondary metabolite abundance in tomato

Plant Cell

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 485-512

  Alseekh, Saleh ^a   Tohge, Takayuki ^a   Wendenberg, Regina ^a   Scossa, Federico ^a,b   Omranian, Nooshin ^a,c   Li, Jie ^d   Kleessen, Sabrina ^a   Giavalisco, Patrick ^a   Pleban, Tzili ^e   Mueller Roeber, Bernd ^a,c   Zamir, Dani ^e   Nikoloski, Zoran ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; LYCOPERSICON PENNELLII;

PLANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INBREEDING; INHERITANCE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SOLANUM;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; INBREEDING; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SOLANUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84927717970     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.132266     Document Type: Article

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