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Wim H Vriezen1, Richard Feron1, Fabio Maretto1

  • 1Department of Plant Cell Biology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525ED Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

The New Phytologist
|November 22, 2007
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Plant hormones like ethylene and abscisic acid (ABA) regulate tomato fruit set. Their expression decreases after pollination, suggesting an antagonistic role to auxin and gibberellin in preventing premature fruit development.

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