Modification of carbohydrate content in developing tomato fruit

HortScience

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1024-1027

  Schaffer, Arthur A ^a   Petreikov, Marina ^a   Miron, Daphne ^a,b   Fogelman, Miriam ^a   Spiegelman, Moshe ^a   Bnei Moshe, Zecharia ^a   Shen, Shmuel ^a   Granot, David ^a   Hadas, Rivka ^a   Dai, Nir ^a   Levin, Ilan ^a   Bar, Moshe ^a,c   Friedman, Michael ^a   Pilowsky, Meir ^a   Gilboa, Nehama ^a   Chen, Leah ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c Zeraim Seed Co   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

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LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0032693247     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.34.6.1024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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