Preservation of plant cell ultrastructure during immunolocalization of virus particles

Journal of Virological Methods

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 223-229

  Ghoshroy, Soumitra ^a   Citovsky, Vitaly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coat protein; Electron microscopy; Immunostaining; Plant tissue; Tobamoviruses; Turnip vein clearing virus

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TOBACCO; TURNIP YELLOW MOSAIC VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PLANTS; PLANTS, TOXIC; TISSUE EMBEDDING; TISSUE FIXATION; TOBACCO; TOBAMOVIRUS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. RAPA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TURNIP VEIN-CLEARING VIRUS;

EID: 0032193070     PISSN: 01660934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0934(98)00084-6     Document Type: Article

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