Regulation of leaf growth of grass by blue light

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 424-430

  Gautier, Hélène ^a   Varlet Grancher, Claude ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Blue light; Festuca arundinacea; Forage plant; Growth; Leaf elongation; Lolium perenne; Perennial ryegrass; Photomorphogenesis; Phyllochron; Tall fescue

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030498602     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1996.980227.x     Document Type: Article

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