Identification and differential expression dynamics of peach small GTPases encoding genes during fruit development and ripening

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2829-2842

  Falchi, Rachele ^a   Cipriani, Guido ^a   Marrazzo, Teresa ^a   Nonis, Alberto ^a,b   Vizzotto, Giannina ^a   Ruperti, Benedetto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fruit; GTPase; Peach; Ripening; Trafficking; Vesicle

Indexed keywords

1 AMINOCYCLOPROPANE 1 CARBOXYLIC ACID OXIDASE; 1-AMINOCYCLOPROPANE-1-CARBOXYLIC ACID OXIDASE; MONOMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RAB PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN MOTIF; PRUNUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PRUNUS; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; PRUNUS PERSICA;

EID: 77954714810     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erq116     Document Type: Article

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