Silva Carey

Fruit taste is determined by sugars, acids and in some species, bitter chemicals. Attraction of seed-dispersing organisms in nature and breeding for consumer preferences requires reduced fruit bitterness. A key metabolic shift during ripening prevents tomato fruit bitterness by eliminating α-tomatine, a renowned defence-associated Solanum…[Read more]

To evaluate the epigenetic reprogramming of IFPSCs to become neuron-like cells, methylation microarrays were performed. Hypoxia preconditioning stabilized and allowed for the translocation of hypoxia inducible factor 1α into the nucleus and induced achaete-scute homologue 1 and doublecortin expression. Following induction, the resultant cells…[Read more]