Effect of girdling above the abscission zone of fruit on 'Bartlett' pear ripening on the tree

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 57, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3679-3686

  Murayama, Hideki ^a   Sekine, Daisuke ^a   Yamauchi, Yoshiko ^a   Gao, Mei ^b   Mitsuhashi, Wataru ^a   Toyomasu, Tomonobu ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ethylene; Fruit softening; Girdling; Pyrus communis; Ripening

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; ETHYLENE; PLANT CELL CULTURE;

ABSCISSION ZONE; FRUIT SOFTENING; PHLOEM TRANSPORT; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

FRUITS;

ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; POLYSACCHARIDE; STARCH; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; FRUIT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PEAR; PHLOEM; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL WALL; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; PHLOEM; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PYRUS; STARCH;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMES; ETHYLENE; FRUITS; GIRDLING; RIPENING;

PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 33845240346     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erl129     Document Type: Article

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