Expression of thiol proteases decreases in tomato ovaries after fruit set induced by pollination or gibberellic acid

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 235-240

  Agüero, Marta S ^a,b   Granell, Antonio ^b   Carbonell, Juan ^b  

^a Univ Nacional del Comanue   (Argentina)

^b Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

Author keywords

C14 thiol protease; Fruit development; Fruit set; Gibberellin; Lycopersicon esculentum; Ovary; Papain; Proteases; Senescence; Tomato

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030512408     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1996.980203.x     Document Type: Article

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