Prickly pear polygalacturonase gene: cDNA cloning and transcript accumulation during ethylene treatment, cold storage and wounding

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 254-259

  de Fátima Rosas Cárdenas, Flor ^a   Valderrama Cháirez, María Leonor ^a   Cruz Hernández, Andrés ^a   Paredes López, Octavio ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Fruit ripening; Non climacteric; Polygalacturonase; Prickly pear; Softening

Indexed keywords

OPUNTIA;

EID: 34047192625     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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