Responses of apples to postharvest jasmonate treatments

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 421-425

  Fan, Xuetong ^a   Mattheis, James P ^a   Fellman, John K ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; Degreening; Ethephon; Ethylene; Jasmonic acid; Malus xdomestica; Methyl jasmonate; Yellowing

Indexed keywords

MALUS; MALUS DOMESTICA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MALUS XDOMESTICA;

EID: 0031925772     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.123.3.421     Document Type: Article

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