Nitrate reductase activity during desiccation and rehydration of the desiccation-tolerant moss Tortula ruralis

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-76

  Mahan, J R ^a   Oliver, M J ^a   Sherman, T D ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Desiccation; Nitrate induction; Nitrate reductase; Nitrite; Tortula ruralis

Indexed keywords

DNA PROBE; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; HYDRATION; NITRATE REDUCTASE;

TORTULA RURALIS;

EID: 0032006381     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-8472(97)00026-9     Document Type: Article

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