The transition to flowering in tomato

Plant Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-82

  Samach, Alon ^a   Lotan, Hamutal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Environmental cues; Flowering; Flowering time mutants; Single flower truss; Solanum lycopersicum L.

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 33947507292     PISSN: 13424580     EISSN: 13476114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.24.71     Document Type: Review

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