Regulatory features underlying pollination-dependent and-independent tomato fruit set revealed by transcript and primary metabolite profiling

Plant Cell

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1428-1452

  Wang, Hua ^a,b   Schauer, Nicolas ^c   Usadel, Bjoern ^c   Frasse, Pierre ^a,b   Zouine, Mohamed ^d   Hernould, Michel ^a,b   Latché, Alain ^a,b   Pech, Jean Claude ^a,b   Fernie, Alisdair R ^c   Bouzayena, Mondher ^a,b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

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LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 67650107787     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.108.060830     Document Type: Article

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