Melatonin improved anthocyanin accumulation by regulating gene expressions and resulted in high reactive oxygen species scavenging capacity in cabbage

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue MAR2016, 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Na ^a   Sun, Qianqian ^a   Li, Hongfei ^a   Li, Xingsheng ^b   Cao, Yunyun ^a   Zhang, Haijun ^a   Li, Shuangtao ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Qi, Yan ^c   Ren, Shuxin ^d   Zhao, Bing ^a   Guo, Yang Dong ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shandong Huasheng Agriculture Co Ltd   (China)

^c Beijing Agricultural Technology Extension Station   (China)

^d VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthocyanin; Cabbage; Gene expression; Melatonin; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961754997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00197     Document Type: Article

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