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Characteristics of fruit ripening in tomato mutant epi.
Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B - 1 Jun 2005
Wang Zhong-feng, Ying Tie-jin, Bao Bi-li, Huang Xiao-dan
Abstract excerpt
The characteristics of fruit ripening and expression of ripening-related genes were investigated in epi, an ethylene overproduction mutant of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.). The epi produces apparently more ethylene than its wild type VFN8 at every stage of vegetative and fruit growth and ripening; compared to VFN8, the epi fruit showed higher CO2 evolution, faster descending of chlorophyll, slightly...
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