Background The dietary carotenoids serve as precursor for vitamin A and prevent several
chronic-degenerative diseases. The carotenoid profiling is necessary to understand their …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) high-pigment mutants with lesions in diverse loci such as
DNA Damage-Binding Protein1 (high pigment1 [hp1]), Deetiolated1 (hp2), Zeaxanthin …

Several Penjar accessions of tomato grown in the Mediterranean exhibit prolonged shelf life
and harbor alcobaca mutation. To uncover the metabolic basis underlying shelf life, we …

Tomato fruit ripening is a complex metabolic process regulated by a genetical hierarchy. A
subset of this process is also modulated by light signalling, as mutants encoding negative …

The identification of mutations in targeted genes has been significantly simplified by the
advent of TILLING (Targeting Induced Local Lesions In Genomes), speeding up the functional …

Domestication of tomato has resulted in large diversity in fruit phenotypes. An intensive
phenotyping of 127 tomato accessions from 20 countries revealed extensive morphological …

The polycotyledon mutant of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L. cv Ailsa Craig) showed
altered development during embryogenesis and during vegetative and reproductive phases. …

Oxidation of ascorbic acid by metal ions like copper was prevented by addition of anthocyanin
(cyanidin derivative). Previous reports attributed the ability of flavonoids to protect …

Nitric oxide (NO) plays a pivotal role in growth and disease resistance in plants. It also acts
as a secondary messenger in signaling pathways for several plant hormones. Despite its …

Folate content was estimated in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) accessions using microbiological
assay (MA) and by LC-MS. The MA revealed that in red-ripe fruits folate levels ranged …