5 Ethylene Biosynthesis and Signaling: A Puzzle Yet to be Completed
Annual Plant Reviews book series, Volume 24: Plant Hormone Signaling
Filip Vandenbussche,
Wim H. Vriezen,
Dominique Van Der Straeten,
Filip Vandenbussche
Department of Molecular Genetics, Universiteit Gent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, Gent, B-9000 Belgium
Search for more papers by this authorWim H. Vriezen
Department of Plant Cell Biology, Radboud University Nymegen, 6525 ED, Nymegen, The Netherlands
Search for more papers by this authorDominique Van Der Straeten
Department of Molecular Genetics, Universiteit Gent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, Gent, B-9000 Belgium
Search for more papers by this authorFilip Vandenbussche,
Wim H. Vriezen,
Dominique Van Der Straeten,
Filip Vandenbussche
Department of Molecular Genetics, Universiteit Gent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, Gent, B-9000 Belgium
Search for more papers by this authorWim H. Vriezen
Department of Plant Cell Biology, Radboud University Nymegen, 6525 ED, Nymegen, The Netherlands
Search for more papers by this authorDominique Van Der Straeten
Department of Molecular Genetics, Universiteit Gent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, Gent, B-9000 Belgium
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 19 April 2018
This article was originally published in 2006 in Plant Hormone Signaling, Volume 24 (ISBN 9781405138871) of the Annual Plant Reviews book series, this volume edited by Peter Hedden and Stephen G Thomas. The article was republished in Annual Plant Reviews online in April 2018.
Abstract
The sections in this article are
- Introduction
- Ethylene Biosynthesis
- Ethylene Signal Transduction
- A Complex Network
- Acknowledgements
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