Microarray analysis of the abscission-related transcriptome in the tomato flower abscission zone in response to auxin depletion

Plant Physiology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1929-1956

  Meir, Shimon ^a   Philosoph Hadas, Sonia ^a   Sundaresan, Srivignesh ^a   Selvaraj, K S Vijay ^a   Burd, Shaul ^a   Ophir, Ron ^a   Kochanek, Bettina ^a   Reid, Michael S ^b   Jiang, Cai Zhong ^c   Lers, Amnon ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

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LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

EID: 78649788068     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.110.160697     Document Type: Article

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