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Science 12 April 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5566, pp. 275 - 276
DOI: 10.1126/science.1071401
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Perspectives

PLANT BIOLOGY:
MADS-Box Genes Reach Maturity

Barry Causier, Martin Kieffer, Brendan Davies

Understanding the molecular pathways that direct fruit ripening will enable development of interventions to preserve fruits during storage and shipping. In a Perspective, Causier and colleagues discuss new work (Vrebalov et al.) that takes a step in this direction by revealing that a MADS-box transcription factor is crucial for fruit ripening.

The authors are at the Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. E-mail: b.h.davies{at}leeds.ac.uk

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