Different distribution of cellulose synthesizing complexes in brittle and non-brittle strains of barley

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 335-338

  Kimura, Satoshi ^a   Sakurai, Naoki ^b   Itoh, Takao ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barley; Brittle mutant; Cellulose microfibrils; TCs; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; CELLULOSE; KOBINKATAGI 4; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032933905     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029546     Document Type: Article

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