Ethylene and fruit softening in the stony hard mutation in peach

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 16-21

  Hayama, Hiroko ^a   Tatsuki, Miho ^a   Ito, Akiko ^a   Kashimura, Yoshiki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ethylene; Fruit softening; Peach; Polygalacturonase; Prunus persica

Indexed keywords

PRUNUS PERSICA;

EID: 33747139413     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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