Sucrose metabolizing genes are critical for growth and development of maize seed

Phyton - Annales Rei Botanicae

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 7-11

  Chourey, Prem S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell wall invertase; Endosperm; Sucrose synthase

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033383995     PISSN: 00792047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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