Brassinosteroids are involved in controlling sugar unloading in Vitis vinifera 'Cabernet Sauvignon' berries during

Fan Xu1, Zhu-Mei Xi2, Hui Zhang1

  • 1College of Enology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China.

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