Internal anatomy of individual tomato seeds: Relationship to abscisic acid and germination physiology

Seed Science Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-128

  Downie, Bruce ^a,b   Gurusinghe, Sunitha ^a   Bradford, Kent J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; Endo mannanase; Germination; Lycopersicon esculentum Mill; Priming; Tomato; X radiography

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0033038695     PISSN: 09602585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0960258599000136     Document Type: Article

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