Pucker, Boas; Singh, Hidam Bishworjit; Kumari, Monika; Khan, Mohammad Imtiyaj; Brockington, Samuel F.: The report of anthocyanins in the betalain-pigmented genus Hylocereus is not well evidenced and is not a strong basis to refute the mutual exclusion parad [...]. In: BMC Plant Biology. Vol.21 Issue 1. 2021
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- Main text
- No detection of betalains
- Profiling of anthocyanins does not meet widely held standards
- Reported anthocyanins do not clearly correlate with flesh colouration
- qPCR quantification is missing for key anthocyanin biosynthesis genes
- Annotation and orthology assignment appear erroneous
- Reported transcript abundance for anthocyanin genes is not reproducible
- Putative MYB regulators are not homologs of known activators of the anthocyanin pathway
- Materials and methods
- Supplementary Information
- Acknowledgements
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- Competing interests
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- Publisher’s Note