Surfactant-Enhanced Penetration of Benzyladenine through Isolated Tomato Fruit Cuticular Membranes

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2346-2352

  Petracek, Peter D ^a,b   Fader, Royal G ^a   Knoche, Moritz ^a,c   Bukovac, Martin J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Florida Department of Citrus   (United States)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cuticle; Cytokinin; Diffusion; Lycopersicon esculentum; Sorption; Triton X 100

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0001343790     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf971093f     Document Type: Article

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24. Registry No. Supplied by thg Author: BA, 1214-39-7; Triton X-100, 9036-19-5.