Seven MADS-box genes in apple are expressed in different parts of the fruit

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 8-13

  Yao, Jia Long ^a   Dong, Yi Hu ^a   Kvarnheden, Anders ^a   Morris, Bret ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fruit development; Gene phylogeny; MADS box xdomestica

Indexed keywords

CDNA LIBRARY; CLONED GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MADS BOX GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; POLLINATION;

MALUS DOMESTICA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MALUS XDOMESTICA;

EID: 0032927342     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.124.1.8     Document Type: Article

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