Polyamine, ethylene and other physico-chemical parameters in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) fruits as affected by salinity

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 428-434

  Botella, M Ángeles ^a   Del Amor, Francisco ^b   Amorós, Asunción ^a   Serrano, María ^a   Martínez, Vicente ^b   Cerdá, Antonio ^b  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 AMINOCYCLOPROPANE 1 CARBOXYLIC ACID; COLOR; CULTIVAR; ETHYLENE; FLOWERING; FRUIT WEIGHT; FRUIT; GROWTH PERIOD; PLANT GROWTH; POLYAMINE; PUTRESCINE; SALINITY; SALT STRESS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPERMIDINE;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0033876161     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2000.100409.x     Document Type: Article

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