Tomato fruit continues growing while ripening, affecting cuticle properties and cracking

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 473-486

  Domínguez, Eva ^a   Fernández, María Dolores ^b   Hernández, Juan Carlos López ^b   Parra, Jerónimo Pérez ^b   España, Laura ^a   Heredia, Antonio ^a   Cuartero, Jesús ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HORTOFRUTICULTURA SUBTROPICAL Y MEDITERRÁNEA LA MAYORA   (Spain)

^b Cajamar Experimental Station 'Las Palmerillas'   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL WALL; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMIDITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; TOMATO;

BIOMECHANICS; CELL WALL; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; HUMIDITY; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT EPIDERMIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM VAR. CERASIFORME;

EID: 84869080090     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2012.01647.x     Document Type: Article

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