Fruit carotenoid-deficient mutants in tomato reveal a function of the plastidial isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase (IDI1) in carotenoid biosynthesis

Plant Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 82-94

  Pankratov, Ilya ^a   McQuinn, Ryan ^b,c   Schwartz, Jochanan ^a   Bar, Einat ^d   Fei, Zhangjun ^b   Lewinsohn, Efraim ^d   Zamir, Dani ^a   Giovannoni, James J ^b,c   Hirschberg, Joseph ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^d VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

carotenoids; de etiolation; fruit development; isoprenoid biosynthesis; plastid; Solanum lycopersicum

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMES; LIPIDS; PIGMENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CAROTENOIDS; DE-ETIOLATION; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; ISOPRENOID BIOSYNTHESIS; PLASTID; SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM;

FRUITS;

CAROTENOID; HEMITERPENE; ISOMERASE; ISOPENTENYL DIPHOSPHATE; ISOPENTENYLDIPHOSPHATE DELTA-ISOMERASE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND;

BIOSYNTHESIS; FRUIT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; TOMATO;

CARBON-CARBON DOUBLE BOND ISOMERASES; CAROTENOIDS; FRUIT; HEMITERPENES; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MUTATION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84981295198     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13232     Document Type: Article

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