11 Flower Senescence
Annual Plant Reviews book series, Volume 26: Senescence Processes in Plants
Michael S. Reid,
Jen-Chih Chen,
Michael S. Reid
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, One Shields Drive, Davis, CA, 95616 USA
Search for more papers by this authorJen-Chih Chen
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, One Shields Drive, Davis, CA, 95616 USA
Search for more papers by this authorMichael S. Reid,
Jen-Chih Chen,
Michael S. Reid
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, One Shields Drive, Davis, CA, 95616 USA
Search for more papers by this authorJen-Chih Chen
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, One Shields Drive, Davis, CA, 95616 USA
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 19 April 2018
This article was originally published in 2007 in Senescence Processes in Plants, Volume 26 (ISBN 9781405139847) of the Annual Plant Reviews book series, this volume edited by Susheng Gan. The article was republished in Annual Plant Reviews online in April 2018.
Abstract
The sections in this article are
- Introduction
- Flower Opening and Senescence
- Model Systems
- Hormonal Regulation of Flower Senescence
- Flower Senescence and Remobilization of Resources
- Petal Senescence as Programmed Cell Death
- Molecular Biology of Petal Senescence
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