Metabolomics,Unknown,Transcriptomics,Genomics,Proteomics

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Evaluation of genes involved in watermelon fruit ripening and development

ABSTRACT: A microarray and quantitative Real-Time PCR-based study was conducted in watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai var. lanatus] in order to elucidate the flow of events associated with fruit development and ripening in this species. RNA from three different maturation stages of watermelon fruit, as well as leaf, were collected from field grown plants during three consecutive years, and hybridized to high-density, photolithography microarrays. Keywords: developmental time course, gene expression This experiment contained a single biological replicate, two tissue types (leaf, fruit flesh), and three time points (12 days post-pollination, 24 days post-pollination, and 36 days post-pollination. One hundred and twenty-seven genes were chosen from this experiments and used in conjunction with quantitative-PCR to examine two additional biological replications of the experiment.

ORGANISM(S): Citrullus lanatus

SUBMITTER: Patrick Wechter

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-11246 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Gene expression in developing watermelon fruit.

Wechter W Patrick WP Levi Amnon A Harris Karen R KR Davis Angela R AR Fei Zhangjun Z Katzir Nurit N Giovannoni James J JJ Salman-Minkov Ayelet A Hernandez Alvaro A Thimmapuram Jyothi J Tadmor Yaakov Y Portnoy Vitaly V Trebitsh Tova T

BMC genomics 20080605

<h4>Background</h4>Cultivated watermelon form large fruits that are highly variable in size, shape, color, and content, yet have extremely narrow genetic diversity. Whereas a plethora of genes involved in cell wall metabolism, ethylene biosynthesis, fruit softening, and secondary metabolism during fruit development and ripening have been identified in other plant species, little is known of the genes involved in these processes in watermelon. A microarray and quantitative Real-Time PCR-based stu ...[more]

PMID: 18534026

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Evaluation of genes involved in watermelon fruit ripening and development

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Gene expression in developing watermelon fruit.

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