A novel strategy to produce sweeter tomato fruits with high sugar contents by fruit-specific expression of a single bZIP transcription factor gene

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1116-1126

  Sagor, G H M ^a   Berberich, Thomas ^b   Tanaka, Shun ^a   Nishiyama, Manabu ^a   Kanayama, Yoshinori ^a   Kojima, Seiji ^a   Muramoto, Koji ^a   Kusano, Tomonobu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basic region leucine zipper gene; Deregulation of translational control; Solanum lycopersicum; Sucrose; Sweetening technology; Upstream open reading frame

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; PLANT PROTEIN; SUCROSE;

ARABIDOPSIS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACIDS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FRUCTOSE; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCOSE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SUCROSE;

EID: 84961199524     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12480     Document Type: Article

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