Evidence for the Critical Role of Sucrose Synthase for Anoxic Tolerance of Maize Roots using a Double Mutant

Plant Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1323-1331

  Ricard, Bérénice ^a   VanToai, Tara ^b   Chourey, Prem ^c   Saglio, Pierre ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b SOIL DRAINAGE RESEARCH UNIT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0000628944     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.116.4.1323     Document Type: Article

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