Activity of sucrose hydrolysing enzymes and sugar accumulation during tomato fruit development

Plant Growth Regulation

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 193-201

  Demnitz King, A ^a,b   Ho, L C ^a   Baker, D A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acid invertase; Dry mattel accumulation; Lycopersicon asculentum; Sucrose cleavage; Sucrose synthase; Sugar accumulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030656224     PISSN: 01676903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005985213777     Document Type: Article

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