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SUBMITTER: Wang ZF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1389880 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Zhong-feng ZF Ying Tie-jin TJ Bao Bi-li BL Huang Xiao-dan XD
Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B 20050601 6
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 quicker increase of carotenoid and lycopene, and faster reduction in pericarp firmness d ...[more]