Table 5

Carotenoid and sugar metabolism pathway genes that are differentially expressed during watermelon fruit development

Unigene

Description

Expression (reads per million)


10 DAP

18 DAP

26 DAP

34 DAP


WMU38667

phytoene synthase 1

0

81

76.8

47.7

WMU41454

lycopene beta cyclase

95.4

40.5

25.6

0

WMU23179

sucrose-phosphate synthase

0

6.8

19.2

68.1

WMU23817

sucrose synthase

95.4

81

140.8

265.6


Guo et al. BMC Genomics 2011 12:454   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-12-454

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