Starch deposition in storage organs and the importance of nutrients and external factors

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 273-287

  Kosegarten, Harald ^a   Mengel, Konrad ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amyloplast; Apoplastic and symplastic unloading; Cereal grain and legume seed; Potato tuber; Starch synthesis and growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008730334     PISSN: 14368730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jpln.1998.3581610315     Document Type: Article

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