Pedicel Breakstrength and Cellulase Gene Expression during Tomato Flower Abscission

Plant Physiology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 813-820

  Del Campillo, Elena ^a   Bennett, Alan B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULASE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOMATO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLULASE; DNA PRIMERS; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030192094     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.3.813     Document Type: Article

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