Tomato Glutamate Decarboxylase Genes SlGAD2 and SlGAD3 Play Key Roles in Regulating γ-Aminobutyric Acid Levels in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1533-1545

  Takayama, Mariko ^a   Koike, Satoshi ^a   Kusano, Miyako ^a,b   Matsukura, Chiaki ^a   Saito, Kazuki ^b,c   Ariizumi, Tohru ^a   Ezura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fruit; GABA; GAD; Molecular breeding; RNAi; Tomato

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 1; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 2; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

DOWN REGULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DOWN-REGULATION; FRUIT; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

EID: 84939477122     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcv075     Document Type: Article

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