Ethylene-regulation of fruit softening and softening-related genes in peach

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 57, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 4071-4077

  Hayama, Hiroko ^a   Shimada, Takehiko ^b   Fujii, Hiroshi ^b   Ito, Akiko ^a   Kashimura, Yoshiki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b National Agriculture and Food Research Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Ethylene; Fruit ripening; Peach; Prunus persica; Softening; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; FRUITS; GENES; GROWTH KINETICS;

FRUIT SOFTENING; PRUNUS PERSICA; TRANSCRIPTION;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ALPHA N ARABINOFURANOSIDASE; ALPHA-N-ARABINOFURANOSIDASE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; EXPANSIN PROTEIN, PLANT; GLYCOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHYTOHORMONE; POLYGALACTURONASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRUNUS;

CELL WALL; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; NUCLEOTIDE MAPPING; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYGALACTURONASE; PRUNUS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CELL WALLS; ETHYLENE; FRUITS; SOFTENING;

PRUNUS; PRUNUS PERSICA;

EID: 33845632542     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erl178     Document Type: Article

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