Comparison of the ability of partially n-acetylated chitosans and chitooligosaccharides to elicit resistance reactions in wheat leaves

Plant Physiology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1353-1359

  Vander, Peter ^a   Våain, Kjell M ^b   Domard, Alain ^c   El Gueddari, Nour Eddine ^d   Moerschbacher, Bruno M ^a,d  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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EID: 0001007252     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.118.4.1353     Document Type: Article

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