Suppressing expression of a soluble acid invertase (BoINV2) in broccoli (Brassica oleracea) delays postharvest floret senescence and downregulates cysteine protease (BoCP5) transcription

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-57

  Eason, Jocelyn R ^a   Ryan, Dacey J ^a   Watson, Lyn M ^a   Pinkney, Tatyana ^a   Hedderley, Duncan ^a   Christey, Mary C ^a   Braun, Robert H ^a   Coupe, Simon A ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; HARVESTING; PLANTS (BOTANY); TISSUE;

BROCCOLI; CYSTEINE PROTEASE; SOLUBLE ACID INVERTASE; WILD-TYPE TISSUES;

ENZYMES;

BACTERIA; ENZYMES; HARVESTING; PLANT TISSUES; VEGETABLES;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ASPARAGUS; ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS; BRASSICA OLERACEA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. ITALICA;

EID: 34247256880     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2007.00892.x     Document Type: Article

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