Tissue-specific soluble sugars in seeds as indicators of storage category

Annals of Botany

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 667-674

  Steadman, Kathryn J ^a,b   Pritchard, Hugh W ^a   Dey, Prakash M ^a  

^a JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

desiccation tolerance; HPLC; orthodox seeds; recalcitrant seeds; Seed storage; seed tissues; soluble sugars; sucrosyl oligosaccharides

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029760409     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbo.1996.0083     Document Type: Article

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