Spontaneous Ultraweak Bioluminescence in Plants: Origin, Mechanisms and Properties

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 289-308

  Radotic K ^a   Radenovic C ^b   Jeremic M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Maize Research Institute   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Applications; Mechanism of luminescent reactions; Metabolic implications; Spectral and kinetic analysis; Spontaneous ultraweak bioluminescence

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

DRUG EFFECT; INJURY; KINETICS; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

KINETICS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXYGEN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0032249365     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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