Down-regulation of DR12, an auxin-response-factor homolog, in the tomato results in a pleiotropic phenotype including dark green and blotchy ripening fruit

Plant Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 603-613

  Jones, Brian ^a   Frasse, Pierre ^a   Olmos, Enrique ^a   Zegzouti, Hicham ^a   Li, Zheng Guo ^a   Latché, Alain ^a   Pech, Jean Claude ^a   Bouzayen, Mondher ^a  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Auxin; Ethylene; Fruit ripening; GFP tagging; Licopersicon esculentum; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; GENES; PLANT CELL CULTURE; RNA; TISSUE;

GENE EXPRESSION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLOR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0038307685     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01450.x     Document Type: Article

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