Minor vein structure and sugar transport in Arabidopsis thaliana

Planta

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 105-111

  Haritatos, Edith ^a,c   Medville, Richard ^b   Turgeon, Robert ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b Electron Microsc Serv and Consult   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis (sucrose transport); Minor vein; Phloem loading; Plasmodesmata; Raffinose; Sucrose transport

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CELL WALL; COMPANION CELL; LEAF VEIN; LEAF VEIN PATTERN; PARENCHYMA CELL; PHLOEM; PLANT CELL; PLANT LEAF; PLASMODESMA; RAFFINOSE; SUCROSE; SUGAR TRANSPORT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0033934337     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250000268     Document Type: Article

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