Responses of banana fruit to treatment with 1-methylcyclopropene

Plant Growth Regulation

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 77-82

  Jiang, Yueming ^a   Joyce, Daryl C ^b   Macnish, Andrew J ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

1 methylcyclopropene; Banana; Binding site; Ethylene; Softening

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032773323     PISSN: 01676903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006222631666     Document Type: Article

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