Inhibition of auxin transport from the ovary or from the apical shoot induces parthenocarpic fruit-set in tomato mediated by gibberellins

Plant Physiology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 851-862

  Serrani, Juan Carlos ^a,c   Carrera, Esther ^a   Ruiz Rivero, Omar ^a   Gallego Giraldo, Lina ^a,c   Peres, Lázaro Eustáquio Pereira ^b   García Martínez, José Luis ^a  

^a Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 77953190135     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.110.155424     Document Type: Article

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