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. 1992 Oct;100(2):549–551. doi: 10.1104/pp.100.2.549

Modification of Fruit Ripening by Suppressing Gene Expression

Athanasios Theologis 1, Thomas I Zarembinski 1, Paul W Oeller 1, Xiaowu Liang 1, Steffen Abel 1
PMCID: PMC1075592  PMID: 16653026

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