The study of a SPATULA-like bHLH transcription factor expressed during peach (Prunus persica) fruit development

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 654-663

  Tani, Eleni ^a   Tsaballa, Aphrodite ^b   Stedel, Catalina ^c   Kalloniati, Chrissanthi ^c   Papaefthimiou, Dimitra ^a   Polidoros, Alexios ^a   Darzentas, Nikos ^a   Ganopoulos, Ioannis ^b   Flemetakis, Emmanouil ^c   Katinakis, Panagiotis ^c   Tsaftaris, Athanasios ^a,b  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

BHLH transcription factor; Endocarp development; Prunus persica

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SPT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARTICLE; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLANT GENE; PRUNUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; PRUNUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICACEAE; DICOTYLEDONEAE; PRUNUS; PRUNUS PERSICA;

EID: 79955706903     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2011.01.020     Document Type: Article

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