Mechanisms of hormonal regulation of endosperm cap-specific gene expression in tomato seeds

Plant Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 575-586

  Martínez Andújar, Cristina ^a   Pluskota, Wioletta E ^b   Bassel, George W ^a   Asahina, Masashi ^a   Pupel, Piotr ^b   Nguyen, Theresa T ^a   Takeda Kamiya, Noriko ^c   Toubiana, David ^d   Bai, Bing ^d   Gõrecki, Ryszard J ^b   Fait, Aaron ^d   Yamaguchi, Shinjiro ^c   Nonogaki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

embryo; endosperm; ethylene; germination; gibberellin; seed; Solanum lycopersicum

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO; ENDOSPERM; GERMINATION; GIBBERELLIN; SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM;

CULTIVATION; ETHYLENE; GENE EXPRESSION; SEED; TISSUE;

FRUITS;

BETA MANNOSIDASE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; GIBBERELLIN;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED; PROMOTER REGION; TOMATO;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-MANNOSIDASE; CELL WALL; ENDOSPERM; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GERMINATION; GIBBERELLINS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEEDS;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 84864589120     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.05010.x     Document Type: Article

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