Boric acid stimulates the plasma membrane H+-ATPase of ungerminated lily pollen grains

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 281-290

  Obermeyer, Gerhard ^a   Kriechbaumer, Rosa ^a   Strasser, Doris ^a   Maschessnig, Angela ^a   Bentrup, Friedrich Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Boron; K+ uptake; Lilium longiflorum; Pollen; Proton pump; Tip growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030497827     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1996.980209.x     Document Type: Article

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