An InDel in the promoter of AI-ACTIVATED MALATE TRANSPORTER9 selected during tomato domestication determines fruit malate contents and aluminum tolerance

Plant Cell

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 2249-2268

  Ye, Jie ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Hu, Tixu ^a   Zhang, Fengxia ^a   Wang, Bing ^a   Li, Changxin ^a   Yang, Tianxia ^a   Li, Hanxia ^a   Lu, Yongen ^a   Giovannoni, James J ^b   Zhang, Yuyang ^a   Ye, Zhibiao ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; MALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PLANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DOMESTICATION; DRUG EFFECT; FRUIT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PROMOTER REGION; TOMATO;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALUMINUM; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; DOMESTICATION; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALATES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 85033359930     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.17.00211     Document Type: Article

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