High-resolution spatiotemporal transcriptome mapping of tomato fruit development and ripening

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Shinozaki, Yoshihito ^a   Nicolas, Philippe ^b   Fernandez Pozo, Noe ^b   Ma, Qiyue ^b   Evanich, Daniel J ^b   Shi, Yanna ^b,c   Xu, Yimin ^b   Zheng, Yi ^b   Snyder, Stephen I ^a   Martin, Laetitia B B ^a   Ruiz May, Eliel ^a   Thannhauser, Theodore W ^d   Chen, Kunsong ^c   Domozych, David S ^e   Catalá, Carmen ^a,b   Fei, Zhangjun ^b,d   Mueller, Lukas A ^b   Giovannoni, James J ^b,d   Rose, Jocelyn K C ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ROBERT W HOLLEY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH   (United States)

^e SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; AUXIN; POLYGALACTURONASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; PLANT PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CELL; DISSECTION; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORMONE; ONTOGENY; RIPENING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CAPSICUM ANNUUM; CARBON METABOLISM; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; FRUIT RIPENING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LASER MICRODISSECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PERICARP; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SELF CONCEPT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURAL GENE; TOMATO; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85041123462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02782-9     Document Type: Article

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