Relationship between Fruit Softening and Wall Polysaccharides in Avocado (Persea americana Mill) Mesocarp Tissues

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 603-610

  Sakurai, Naoki ^a   Nevins, Donald J ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avocado (Persea americana Mill); Cell walls; Fruit texture; Ripening Stress relaxation; Xyloglucan

Indexed keywords

PERSEA AMERICANA;

EID: 0001668246     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029210     Document Type: Article

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