Seed developmental temperature regulation of thermotolerance in lettuce

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 700-705

  Sung, Yu ^a   Cantliffe, Daniel J ^b   Nagata, Russell T ^b  

^a Department of Chemistry   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental stress; Germination; High temperature tolerance; Lactuca sativa; Seed production

Indexed keywords

LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA;

EID: 0031865857     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.123.4.700     Document Type: Article

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