Sugar uptake by protoplasts isolated from tomato fruit tissues during various stages of fruit growth

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 533-539

  Brown, M M ^a   Hall, J L ^b   Ho, L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lycopersicon esculentum fruit; Protoplasts; Sugar membrane transport; Tomato

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031458519     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.1010312.x     Document Type: Article

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