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Small heat shock proteins and the postharvest chilling tolerance of tomato fruit.
Physiologia plantarum - 1 Feb 2017
Ré Martín D, Gonzalez Carla, Escobar Mariela R, Sossi María Laura, Valle Estela M, Boggio Silvana B
Abstract excerpt
Plants have the largest number of small heat shock proteins (sHsps) (15-42 kDa) among eukaryotes, but little is known about their function in vivo. They accumulate in response to different stresses, and specific sHsps are also expressed during developmental processes such as seed development, germination, and ripening. The presence of organelle-specific sHsps appears to be unique to plants. The sHsps expression...
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