Relationship between tissue sugar content, phloem import and lateral root initiation in wheat

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 107-113

  Bingham, I J ^a   Blackwood, J M ^a   Stevenson, E A ^a  

^a Dept Crop Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon; Glucose; Initiation; Lateral root; Phloem translocation; Splitroot; Triticum aestivum; Wheat

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE METABOLISM; PHLOEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SUCROSE; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0031817724     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1998.1030113.x     Document Type: Article

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