Silencing polygalacturonase expression inhibits tomato petiole abscission

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 973-979

  Jiang, Cai Zhong ^b   Lu, Feng ^a   Imsabai, Wachiraya ^a   Meir, Shimon ^c   Reid, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Abscission; Cellulase; Endoglucanase; Expansin; Polygalacturonase; Solanum lycopersicum; Virus induced gene silencing

Indexed keywords

POLYGALACTURONASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; TEMPERATURE; TOMATO;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYGALACTURONASE; TEMPERATURE;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SOLANUM; TOBACCO RATTLE VIRUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 43149100573     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern023     Document Type: Article

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