The great escape: Phloem transport and unloading of macromolecules

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2000, Pages 323-347

  Oparka, Karl J ^a   Santa Cruz, Simon ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Companion cells; Macromolecules; Phloem transport; Plasmodesmata; Sieve elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034487380     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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