Ethylene Control of Fruit Ripening: Revisiting the Complex Network of Transcriptional Regulation

Mingchun Liu1, Julien Pirrello1, Christian Chervin1

  • 1Key Laboratory of Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China (M.L.);Université de Toulouse, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse-Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique, UMR990 Génomique et Biotechnologie des Fruits, Castanet-Tolosan, CS 32607, F-31326, France (M.L., J.P., C.C., J.-P.R., M.B.); andInstitut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR990 Génomique et Biotechnologie des Fruits, Castanet-Tolosan, CS 52627, F-31326, France (M.L., J.P., C.C., J.-P.R., M.B.).

Plant Physiology
|October 30, 2015
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