Pathogenesis-Related protein 1b1 (PR1b1) is a major tomato fruit protein responsive to chilling temperature and upregulated in high polyamine transgenic genotypes

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Goyal, Ravinder K ^a,c   Fatima, Tahira ^a,d   Topuz, Muhamet ^a   Bernadec, Anne ^a,e   Sicher, Richard ^a   Handa, Avtar K ^b   Mattoo, Autar K ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

1 MCP; Cold responsive genes; Ethylene; Genetic engineering; Low temperature response; Methyl jasmonate; PR proteins; Solanum lycopersicum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976513714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00901     Document Type: Article

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