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Of all the known plant growth regulators, ethylene is one of the most immediate hormonal signals involved in promoting processes that cause cell separation (abscission, fruit softening) and plant tissue senescence (see Lieberman, 1979; Mattoo and Aharoni, 1988). Cell separation occurs as a result of cell wall hydrolysis in target cells within the separation layer (Osborne, 1979). Enzymes that specifically hydrolyze cell walls, viz. cellulase and polygalacturonase, are known to be regulated positively by ethylene and negatively by auxin (Abeles, 1973; Greenberg et al., 1975; Jeffrey et al., 1984; Tucker et al., 1988).
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Mattoo, A.K., Mehta, A.M., Dean, J.F.D., Anderson, J.D. (1989). Regulation of Ethylene Biosynthesis in Higher Plants: Induction and Identification of l-Aminocyclopropane-l-Carboxylate Synthase. In: Osborne, D.J., Jackson, M.B. (eds) Cell Separation in Plants. NATO ASI Series, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74161-6_5
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