Transcriptome profiling of tomato fruit development reveals transcription factors associated with ascorbic acid, carotenoid and flavonoid biosynthesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Ye, Jie ^a   Hu, Tixu ^a   Yang, Congmei ^a   Li, Hanxia ^a   Yang, Mingze ^a   Ijaz, Raina ^a   Ye, Zhibiao ^a   Zhang, Yuyang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTENOID; FLAVANOID; LYCOPENE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; FLAVONOID; PLANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; FRUIT RIPENING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; HORMONE METABOLISM; MYB GENE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; SECONDARY METABOLISM; TOMATO; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTENOIDS; FLAVONOIDS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84941008409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130885     Document Type: Article

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