Isolation of an ethylene-responsive gene (ERAF16) for a putative methyltransferase and correlation of ERAF16 gene expression with female flower formation in cucumber plants (Cucumis sativus)

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 213-222

  Ando, Sugihiro ^a   Sakai, Shingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; GENES; PROTEINS; RNA; SUBSTRATES; TISSUE;

TRANSCRIPTION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0036788595     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2002.1160211.x     Document Type: Article

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