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Role of Endogenous Gibberellins During Fruit and Seed Development

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Gibberellins

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Fruit and seed development are closely related. In many species, fruit tissue weight increases with an increase in the number of well-developed seeds, and in some cases seeds can be removed or killed and replaced by hormones to restore normal fruit development (e.g., in Pisum sativum 1 and Rosa arvensis 2).

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  1. G. W. M. Barendse
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  1. Department of Agricultural Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

    Nobutaka Takahashi

  2. Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, 90024, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Bernard O. Phinney

  3. School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, BS8 1TS, Bristol, England

    Jake MacMillan

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Barendse, G.W.M., Karssen, C.M., Koornneef, M. (1991). Role of Endogenous Gibberellins During Fruit and Seed Development. In: Takahashi, N., Phinney, B.O., MacMillan, J. (eds) Gibberellins. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3002-1_17

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