Use of a new tetrazolium-based assay to study the production of superoxide radicals by tobacco cell cultures challenged with avirulent zoospores of Phytophthora parasitica var nicotianae

Plant Physiology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 491-499

  Able, Amanda J ^a   Guest, David I ^b   Sutherland, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 0001972758     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.117.2.491     Document Type: Article

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