Tracing the path of oxygen into birdsfoot trefoil and alfalfa nodules using iodine vapor

Botanica Acta

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 193-203

  Jacobsen, Karin Ruth ^a   Rousseau, R A ^a   Denison, R F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Iodine; Lenticels; Nodule endodermis; Nodule gas permeability; Oxygen; Periderm; Suberin

Indexed keywords

LOTUS CORNICULATUS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; ORNITHOPUS PERPUSILLUS;

EID: 0031811327     PISSN: 09328629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1998.tb00695.x     Document Type: Article

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