Fruit Ripening

Plant Cell Separation and Adhesion

Volumn 25, Issue , 2007, Pages 164-182

  Martel, Catherine ^a,b   Giovannoni, James ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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

Author keywords

1 aminocyclopropane 1 carboxylic acid; Ethylene regulated ripening; Fruit ripening; Genomics; Polygalacturonase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948444389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988824.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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