Molecular analysis of softening and ethylene synthesis and signaling pathways in a non-softening apple cultivar, 'Honeycrisp' and a rapidly softening cultivar, 'McIntosh'

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 94-103

  Harb, Jamil ^a,b   Gapper, Nigel E ^a,c   Giovannoni, James J ^c,d   Watkins, Chris B ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^c United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell wall degradation; Ethylene biosynthesis; Gene expression; Malus domestica Borkh.; Ripening; Softening

Indexed keywords

MALUS SYLVESTRIS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 80155128944     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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