How ethylene works in the reproductive organs of higher plants: A signaling update from the third millennium

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 231-242

  De la Torre, Francisco ^a   Rodríguez Gacio, María del Carmen ^a   Matilla, Angel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flower; Fruit; Pollen grain; Proteasome; Seed; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247335254     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.1.5.3389     Document Type: Review

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