Fruit yield and quality of strawberry plants transformed with a fruit specific strawberry pectate lyase gene

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 120-125

  Youssef, Sabry M ^a   Jiménez Bermúdez, Silvia ^a   Bellido, M Luz ^b   Martín Pizarro, Carmen ^a   Barceló, Marta ^c   Abdal Aziz, Samia Abdallah ^a   Caballero, José L ^b   López Aranda, José M ^c   Pliego Alfaro, Fernando ^a   Muñoz, Juan ^b   Quesada, Miguel A ^a   Mercado, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c IFAPA CENTRO EL TORUÑO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Co suppression; Fragaria ananassa; Fruit firmness; Fruit texture; Pectin metabolism

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRUIT PRODUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HERB; RIPENING; TRANSGENIC PLANT; YIELD RESPONSE;

FRAGARIA; FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 56649114382     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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