Chromosaponin I increases mechanical extensibility of lettuce root cell walls

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 740-746

  Tsurumi, Seiji ^a   Watanabe, Ryugo ^b   Kamisaka, Seiichiro ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell wall loosening; chromosaponin I; Lactuca sativa; lettuce; root growth; saponin

Indexed keywords

LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA;

EID: 0030485345     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1996.970415.x     Document Type: Article

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