Bart Nicolaï

Abstract Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is an important model plant whose fleshy fruit consists of well differentiated tissues. Recently it was shown that these tissues develop hypoxia during fruit development and ripening. Therefore, we employed a combination of metabolomics and isotopic labeling to investigate the central carbon metabolic response of tomato fruit tissues (columella, septa and mesocarp) to low O2 stress.

Abstract Ethylene biosynthesis and signaling are pivotal pathways in various plant aging processes, including fruit ripening. Kinetic models can be used to better understand metabolic pathways, but modeling of the ethylene-related pathways is limited and the link between these pathways remains unsolved.

first_page settings Font Type: Arial Georgia Verdana Line Spacing:    Column Width:    Open AccessArticle by 1, 2, 2, 1 and 1,* 1 Department of Biosystems, Biosensors Group, KU Leuven—University of Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium 2 Department of Biosystems, Postharvest Group, KU Leuven—University of Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Int. J. Mol. Sci.