Characterization of genes controlling stamen identity and development in a parthenocarpic tomato mutant indicates a role for the DEFICIENS ortholog in the control of fruit set

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 526-537

  Mazzucato, Andrea ^a   Olimpieri, Irene ^a   Siligato, Francesca ^a   Picarella, Maurizio Enea ^a   Soressi, Gian Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFICIENS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION; TOMATO;

DEFICIENS PROTEIN; GENES, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MUTATION;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 40549128403     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2007.01035.x     Document Type: Article

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