Effect of ethylene treatment on expression of polyuronide-modifying genes and solubilization of polyuronides during ripening in two peach cultivars having different softening characteristics

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 196-201

  Murayama, Hideki ^a   Arikawa, Michiko ^a   Sasaki, Yae ^a   Dal Cin, Valeriano ^b   Mitsuhashi, Wataru ^a   Toyomasu, Tomonobu ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pectate lyase; Pectin methylesterase; Polygalacturonase; Polyuronides; Prunus persica

Indexed keywords

PRUNUS; PRUNUS PERSICA;

EID: 61449111759     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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