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Bitter and sweet make tomato hard to (b)eat

The glycoalkaloid saponin α‐tomatine is a tomato‐specific secondary metabolite that accumulates to millimolar levels in vegetative tissues and has antimicrobial and antinutritional activity that kills microbial pathogens and deters herbivorous insects. We describe recent insights into the biosynthet...

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Autores principales: You, Yaohua, van Kan, Jan A.L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8126962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33220068
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.17104