A transcriptomic approach to identify regulatory genes involved in fruit set of wild-type and parthenocarpic tomato genotypes

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 263-278

  Ruiu, Fabrizio ^a,c   Picarella, Maurizio Enea ^a   Imanishi, Shunsuke ^b   Mazzucato, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fruit set; Ovary development; Parthenocarpic mutants; Solanumlycopersicum L; Transcription factors; Transcriptome profiling

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOWER; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TOMATO;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOWERS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84942505595     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-015-0367-1     Document Type: Article

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