Three different polygalacturonases are expressed in tomato leaf and flower abscission, each with a different temporal expression pattern

Plant Physiology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1303-1308

  Kalaitzis, Panagiotis ^a,b   Solomos, Theophanes ^b   Tucker, Mark L ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 0031127236     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.4.1303     Document Type: Article

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