Carotenoid Accumulation and Carotenogenic Genes Expression During Two Types of Persimmon Fruit (Diospyros kaki L.) Development

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 646-654

  Zhao, Daqiu ^a   Zhou, Chunhua ^a   Tao, Jun ^a  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carotenoid accumulation; Expression analysis; Fruit development; Persimmon

Indexed keywords

DIOSPYROS; DIOSPYROS KAKI; EBENACEAE;

EID: 79958739978     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-010-0272-3     Document Type: Article

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