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Role of the Cucurbita pepo ethylene receptor cpers1 in sex determination

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Advances in Plant Ethylene Research

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Species of the monoecious family Cucurbitaceae change sex determination of flowers when levels of ethylene change. Thus, the exogenous application of ethylene releasing agents such as ethephon inhibits the production of staminate flowers and increases the number of pistillate flowers in squash, being therefore used in the commercial production of hybrid seed (Rudich et al., 1970).

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  1. Mejora y Biotecnología de cultivos, IFAPA, CIFA Almería, España, Spain

    A. Peñaranda, C. Payán & P. Gómez

  2. Department of Plant Physiology, University of Granada, Fuentenueva S/N, 18071, Granada, Spain

    D. Garrido

  3. Department of Applied Biology (Genetic area), University of Almería, Escuela Politécnica Superior, 04120, Almería, Spain

    M. Jamilena

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  1. Department of Environmental Agronomy and Crop Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Universita 16, I-35020, Legnaro, Padova, Italy

    Angelo Ramina

  2. Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742, Maryland, MD, USA

    Caren Chang

  3. Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Jim Giovannoni

  4. Horticultural Sciences, University of Florida, 32611-0690, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Harry Klee

  5. Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Pierdomenico Perata

  6. Agrotechnology and Food Sciences Group (AFSG), Wageningen University and Research Centre, 17, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Ernst Woltering

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Peñaranda, A., Payán, C., Garrido, D., Jamilena, M., Gómez, P. (2007). Role of the Cucurbita pepo ethylene receptor cpers1 in sex determination. In: Ramina, A., Chang, C., Giovannoni, J., Klee, H., Perata, P., Woltering, E. (eds) Advances in Plant Ethylene Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6014-4_35

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