Fruitlet abscission: A cDNA-AFLP approach to study genes differentially expressed during shedding of immature fruits reveals the involvement of a putative auxin hydrogen symporter in apple (Malus domestica L. Borkh)

Gene

Volumn 442, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 26-36

  Dal Cin, Valeriano ^a   Barbaro, Enrico ^b   Danesin, Marcello ^a   Murayama, Hideki ^c   Velasco, Riccardo ^b   Ramina, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Experimental Institute for Agriculture   (Italy)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abscission; AFLP; Auxin; Dominance; Ethylene

Indexed keywords

AUXIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COTRANSPORTER; ETHYLENE; HYDROGEN;

ABSCISSION; APPLE; ARTICLE; FRUIT BREEDING; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PLASTID GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MALUS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SYMPORTERS;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 67349124373     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

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