Recent progress in brassinosteroid research

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 696-701

  Sasse, Jenneth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analysis; Applications; Brassinosteroids; Occurrence; Physiology; Stress; Structure activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030792945     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.1000333.x     Document Type: Article

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