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Gene expression in developing watermelon fruit.
BMC genomics - 5 Jun 2008
Wechter W Patrick, Levi Amnon, Harris Karen R, Davis Angela R, Fei Zhangjun, Katzir Nurit, Giovannoni James J, Salman-Minkov Ayelet, Hernandez Alvaro, Thimmapuram Jyothi, Tadmor Yaakov, Portnoy Vitaly, Trebitsh Tova
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BACKGROUND: Cultivated watermelon form large fruits that are highly variable in size, shape, color, and content, yet have extremely narrow genetic diversity. Whereas a plethora of genes involved in cell wall metabolism, ethylene biosynthesis, fruit softening, and secondary metabolism during fruit development and ripening have been identified in other plant species, little is known of the genes involved in these...
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