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Resistance of Malus domestica fruit to Botrytis cinerea depends on endogenous ethylene biosynthesis.
Phytopathology - 1 Nov 2011
Akagi Aya, Dandekar Abhaya M, Stotz Henrik U
Abstract excerpt
The plant hormone ethylene regulates fruit ripening, other developmental processes, and a subset of defense responses. Here, we show that 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid synthase (ACS)-silenced apple (Malus domestica) fruit that express a sense construct of ACS were more susceptible to Botrytis cinerea than untransformed apple, demonstrating that ethylene strengthens fruit resistance to B. cinerea...
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