Transcriptomic Events Involved in Melon Mature-Fruit Abscission Comprise the Sequential Induction of Cell-Wall Degrading Genes Coupled to a Stimulation of Endo and Exocytosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Corbacho, Jorge ^a   Romojaro, Félix ^b   Pech, Jean Claude ^c   Latché, Alain ^c   Gomez Jimenez, Maria C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

^c Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DYNAMIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; KINESIN; PHYTOHORMONE; SYNTAXIN; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; V TYPE ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ABSCISSION ZONE; AP2D15 GENE; ARTICLE; AZ GENE; CELL WALL; DOWN REGULATION; EGASE1 GENE; ENDOCYTOSIS; ERAF17 GENE; ERF1 GENE; EXOCYTOSIS; EXT1 GENE; EXT2 GENE; EXT3 GENE; EXT4 GENE; FLC GENE; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INDUCTION; HORMONE METABOLISM; IAA2 GENE; MADS2 GENE; MATURE FRUIT ABSCISSION; MELON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PYROSEQUENCING; SAP5 GENE; SCL13 GENE; TIME; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION;

CELL WALL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CUCURBITACEAE; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXOCYTOSIS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84874586622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058363     Document Type: Article

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