Fruit Ripening and its Manipulation

Senescence Processes in Plants

Volumn 26, Issue , 2007, Pages 278-303

  Giovannoni, James J ^a  

^a Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

1 aminocyclopropane 1 carboxylic acid; Aminoethoxyvinylglycine; Cell wall metabolism; Fruit ripening; Pectin methylesterase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948412779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988855.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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