Apoplastic pH in corn root gravitropism: A laser scanning confocal microscopy measurement

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-38

  Taylor, Douglas P ^a   Slattery, James ^b   Leopold, A Carl ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid growth; Gravitropism; Laser scanning confocal microscopy; pH

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

DEXTRAN; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CELL WALL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; GRAVITROPISM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; METHODOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT ROOT;

CALIBRATION; CELL WALL; DEXTRANS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GRAVITROPISM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT ROOTS; SOFTWARE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030132753     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.1996.tb00475.x     Document Type: Article

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