Laser ablation of root cap cells: Implications for models of graviperception

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 731-738

  Blancaflor, E B ^a   Fasano, J M ^a   Gilroy, S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; GRAVITROPISM; GRAVITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LASER; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT CAP; PLASTID; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; GRAVITATION; GRAVITROPISM; GRAVITY PERCEPTION; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT CAP; PLASTIDS;

EID: 0033289460     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00406-8     Document Type: Article

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