Purple as a tomato: towards high anthocyanin tomatoes
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Purple as a tomato: towards high anthocyanin tomatoes.
Anthocyanins are naturally occurring pigments ubiquitously present in plants and, as such, part of the human diet. Owing to their biological activity, anthocyanins have beneficial health effects but, unfortunately, are not present in some important crop plants, such as tomatoes. Recently, a 'purple' tomato, highly enriched with anthocyanins, was produced by the ectopic expression of two selecte...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Plant Science
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1360-1385
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2009.02.001