Symplasmic constriction and ultrastructural features of the sieve element/companion cell complex in the transport phloem of apoplasmically and symplasmically phloem-loading species

Plant Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 271-278

  Kempers, Ronald ^a   Ammerlaan, Ankie ^a   Van Bel, Aart J E ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CELL TRANSPORT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; PHLOEM;

CUCURBITA MAXIMA; LYTHRUM SALICARIA; VICIA FABA; ZINNIA ELEGANS;

EID: 0031787516     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.116.1.271     Document Type: Article

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