Ethylene and fruit ripening

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 727-739

  Lèlievre, Jean Marc ^a   Latché, Alain ^a   Jones, Brian ^a   Bouzayen, Mondher ^a   Pech, Jean Claude ^a  

^a Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

1 Aminocyclopropane 1 carboxylic acid (ACC); ACC oxidase; ACC synthase; Climacteric and non climacteric fruits; Ethylene perception and transduction pathways; Ethylene receptor; Ethylene dependent and independent pathways

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031406630     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.1010408.x     Document Type: Article

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