The ascorbate system in recalcitrant and orthodox seeds

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 193-198

  Tommasi, Franca ^a   Paciolla, C ^a   Arrigoni, O ^a  

^a Istituto Botanico   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBATE FREE RADICAL REDUCTASE; ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE; ASCORBIC ACID; DEHYDROASCORBIC ACID REDUCTASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY;

EID: 0032942340     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1999.105202.x     Document Type: Article

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