METHOD OF OBTAINING PLANTS WHICH EXHIBIT DELAYED OR INHIBITED FRUIT RIPENING AND/OR SENESCENCE

摘要

A method of obtaining seedlings leading to plants which exhibit delayed or inhibited fruit ripening and/or vegetable tissue sensecence consisting essentially of: (i) selecting seedlings which, in the presence of an inhibitor of cytokinin-N7,9 conjugation, germinate from seeds of plants having a low or reduced polar auxin transport capacity within a typical germination time and develop; or (ii) selecting seedlings which grow at an acute angle of less than about 70! to the horizontal in the presence of an auxin polar transport inhibitor.