Development of sink capacity of the 'storage root' in a radish cultivar with a high ratio of 'storage root' to shoot

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 369-377

  Usuda, Hideaki ^a   Demura, Taku ^b   Shimogawara, Kousuke ^a   Fukuda, Hiroo ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Radish; Raphanus sativus L.; Sink activity; Sink capacity; Sucrose synthase

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CULTIVAR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; RADISH; SUCROSE SYNTHASE;

RAPHANUS SATIVUS;

EID: 0032926830     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029552     Document Type: Article

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