Tomato, Solanum

Solanaceae Capsicum annum (sweet and bell peppers) Solanum tuberosum (potato) Lycopersicum esculentum (tomato) Solanum melongena (eggplant)... 

Zapata PJ, Guillen F, Martinez-Romero D, Castillo S, Valero D and Serrano M. 2008. Use of alginate or zein as edible coatings to delay postharvest ripening process and to maintain tomato (Solanum lycopersicon Mill) quality. J Sci Food Agric 88 1287—1293. 

Van Der Rest, B., Danoun, S., Boudet, A.M. and Rochange, S.F. (2006) Down-regulation of cinnamoyl-CoA reductase in tomato Solanum lycopersicum L.) induces dramatic changes in soluble phenolic pools. /. Exp. Bot., 57,1399-411. 

Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) contain large amounts of lycopene. 

In this context, the ectopic production of resveratrol could have positive effects on the enhancement of the nutritional value of several widely consumed fruits and vegetables. This chapter focuses on the latest findings regarding on resveratrol bioproduction in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) fruits. 

Sallaud C, Rontein D, Onillon S, Jabes F, Duffe P, Giacalone C, Thoraval S, Escoffier C, Herbette G, Leonhardt N, Causse M, Tissier A (2009) A novel pathway for sesquiterpene biosynthesis from Z, Z-famesyl pyrophosphate in the wild tomato Solanum habrochaites. Plant Cell 21 301-317... 

Nomicotine in N. glutinosa and in N. glauca is formed only in the leaves and at the expense of nicotine translocated from the roots as could be proved by reciprocal graft combinations with tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) shoots/roots (Dawson 1945). Already in this early report it was speculated that nicotine is converted to nor-nicotine probably by transmethylation . However, according to a proposal of Leete (1977), iV -formylnomicotine may be formed by oxidation of the iV-methyl group of nicotine followed by oxidation to nomicotine. Later a partial characterisation of nicotine iV-demethylase from microsomes of N. otophora was documented. Demethylation was interpreted to be associated with cytochrome P-450 rather than achieved by transmethylation (Bush et al. 1999 and references therein). The enzyme turned out to be NADPH-dependent in cell-free preparations from cell cultures of N. tabacum (Hao and Yeoman 1996b). Recently, it has been proved that CYP82E4 is involved in the metabolic conversion of nicotine to nomicotine in tobacco (Siminszky et al. 2005). 

Bovy, A., Schijlen, E. Hall, R.D. (2007). Metabolic engineering of flavonoids in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) the potential for metabolomics. Metabolomics, 3, 399-412. 

Urbanczyk-Wochniak, E. Femie, A.R. (2005). Metabolic profiling reveals altered nitrogen nutrient regimes have diverse effects on the metabolism of hydroponically-grown tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants. Journal of Experimental Botany, 56, 309-321. 

Natividad, L. R. Rafael, R. R. (2014). Carotenoid Analyses and Antibacterial Assay of Annato (Bixa orellana L.), Carrot (Daucus carota L.), Com (Zea mays L.) and Tomato (Solanum lyeopersieum L.) Extracts. Res. J. Recent Sci., 3(3), 40-45. 

Hauser, B.A., Pratt, L.H., and Oardonnier-Pratt, M.M., Absolute quantification of five phytochrome transcripts in seedlings and mature plants of tomato Solanum lycopersicum L.), Planta, 201, 379, 1997. 

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