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A Transcriptional Network Promotes Anthocyanin Biosynthesis in Tomato Flesh.
Molecular plant - 6 Jan 2020
Sun Chuanlong, Deng Lei, Du Minmin, Zhao Jiuhai, Chen Qian, Huang Tingting, Jiang Hongling, Li Chang-Bao, Li Chuanyou
Abstract excerpt
Dietary anthocyanins are important health-promoting antioxidants that make a major contribution to the quality of fruits. It is intriguing that most tomato cultivars do not produce anthocyanins in fruit. However, the purple tomato variety Indigo Rose, which has the dominant Aft locus combined with the recessive atv locus from wild tomato species, exhibits light-dependent anthocyanin accumulation in the fruit...
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