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    Natural occurring epialleles determine vitamin E accumulation in tomato fruits

    Vitamin E (VTE) content is a low heritability nutritional trait for which the genetic determinants are poorly understood. Here, we focus on a previously detected major tomato VTE quantitative trait loci (QTL; ...

    Leandro Quadrana, Juliana Almeida, Ramon Asís, Tomás Duffy in Nature Communications (2014)

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    Transcriptional regulation of tocopherol biosynthesis in tomato

    Tocopherols, compounds with vitamin E (VTE) activity, are potent lipid-soluble antioxidants synthesized only by photosynthetic organisms. Their biosynthesis requires the condensation of phytyl-diphosphate and ...

    Leandro Quadrana, Juliana Almeida, Santiago N. Otaiza in Plant Molecular Biology (2013)