A newly identified chemotactic sexual pheromone from Closterium ehrenbergii

Sexual Plant Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 81-85

  Fukumoto, R ^a   Fujii, T ^b   Sekimoto, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemoattractant; Closterium ehrenbergii; Conjugation; Protoplast release inducing protein; Sexual pheromone

Indexed keywords

CLOSTERIUM EHRENBERGII;

EID: 0031838396     PISSN: 09340882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004970050123     Document Type: Article

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