Preventing unwanted breakups: Using polygalacturonases to regulate cell separation

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Swain, Steve M ^a   Kay, Pippa ^a   Ogawa, Mikihiro ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abscission; Cell separation; Dehiscence; Pod shatter; Polygalacturonase

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; POLYGALACTURONASE;

AGRICULTURE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PLANT SEED; REPRODUCTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGRICULTURE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; POLYGALACTURONASE; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS;

EID: 79956214987     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.6.1.14147     Document Type: Article

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