Comparative physiological and transcriptomic analyses reveal the actions of melatonin in the delay of postharvest physiological deterioration of cassava

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue MAY2016, 2016, Pages

  Hu, Wei ^a   Kong, Hua ^a   Guo, Yunling ^a   Zhang, Yuliang ^a   Ding, Zehong ^a   Tie, Weiwei ^a   Yan, Yan ^a   Huang, Qixing ^a   Peng, Ming ^a   Shi, Haitao ^b   Guo, Anping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cassava; Melatonin; Postharvest physiological deterioration; Reactive oxygen species; Starch metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971373903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00736     Document Type: Article

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