Histological analysis of fruit development between two melon (Cucumis melo L. reticulatus) genotypes setting a different size of fruit

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 50, Issue 339, 1999, Pages 1593-1597

  Higashi, Katsumi ^a,b   Hosoya, Kazushige ^a   Ezura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Cucumis melo; Fruit development

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO; EMBRYOPHYTA; MELO;

EID: 0032847070     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/50.339.1593     Document Type: Article

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