Factors affecting 'Hass' avocado fruit size: Carbohydrate, abscisic acid and isoprenoid metabolism in normal and phenotypically small fruit

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-89

  Richings, Evelyn W ^a   Cripps, Ryan F ^a   Cowan, A Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL RESPIRATION; COMPACTIN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRUIT QUALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; MESOCARP; PHENOTYPE; SUCROSE PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE;

PERSEA AMERICANA;

EID: 0034118046     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2000.100112.x     Document Type: Article

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