Evidence for symplastic phloem unloading with concomitant high activity of acid cell wall invertase in Agrobacterium tumefaciens-induced plant tumors

Botanica Acta

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 397-404

  Pradel, Katja S ^a   Rezmer, Claudia ^a   Krausgrill, Silke ^b   Rausch, T ^b   Ullrich, Cornelia I ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acid cell wall invertase; Agrobacterium tumefaciens induced plant tumors; GUS as transformation marker; Lucifer yellow CH; plasmodesmata; symplastic phloem unloading; transport of fluorescent dyes

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS;

EID: 0029963530     PISSN: 09328629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1996.tb00589.x     Document Type: Article

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