MADS-box genes expressed during tomato seed and fruit development

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 801-815

  Busi, María Victoria ^a   Bustamante, Claudia ^a   D'Angelo, Cecilia ^a   Hidalgo Cuevas, Mauricio ^a   Boggio, Silvana B ^b   Valle, Estela M ^b   Zabaleta, Eduardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

^b Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Rosario   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Fruit development; Lycopersicon esculentum; MADS box genes; Seed development

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DIMERS; FLUORESCENCE; FRUITS; GENES; SEED;

FLOWERS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0042194756     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025001402838     Document Type: Article

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