Sieve tube unloading and post-phloem transport of fluorescent tracers and proteins injected into sieve tubes via severed aphid stylets

Plant Physiology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 125-137

  Fisher, Donald B ^a   Cash Clark, Cora E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL TRANSPORT; DEXTRAN; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE; PLASMODESMA; POST PHLOEM TRANSPORT; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIEVE TUBE; STOKES RADIUS; TRACER; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0034111107     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.123.1.125     Document Type: Article

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