Lipid-transfer proteins in plants

Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 627-654

  Kader, Jean Claude ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Acyl binding proteins; Cutin synthesis; Embryogenesis; Membrane lipids; Plant pathogen interaction

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0001991322     PISSN: 10402519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.47.1.627     Document Type: Article

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