Gas exchange and metabolite fluctuations in green and yellow bands of variegated leaves of the monocotyledonous CAM species Agave americana

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 99-106

  Raveh, Eran ^a   Wang, Ning ^a   Nobel, Park S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Achlorophyllous; Agave americana; Citrate; Malate; Photosynthesis; Sink source relation

Indexed keywords

APOPLAST; CRASSULACEAN ACID METABOLISM; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); MONOCOTYLEDON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

AGAVE AMERICANA;

EID: 0031870402     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1998.1030112.x     Document Type: Article

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