Soil compaction. A role for ethylene in regulating leaf expansion and shoot growth in tomato?

Plant Physiology

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1227-1237

  Hussain, Ahmed ^a   Black, Colin Ramsay ^a   Taylor, Ian Blackwood ^a   Roberts, Jeremy Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; CULTIVAR; ETHYLENE; GENOTYPE; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH REGULATION; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GROWTH; SILVER; SOIL COMPACTION; STRESS TOLERANCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD RELATIVE;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0033388432     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.121.4.1227     Document Type: Article

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