The effect of a microgravity (space) environment on the expression of expansins from the peg and root tissues of Cucumis sativus

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 292-300

  Link, Bruce M ^a   Wagner, Edward R ^b   Cosgrove, Daniel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAVITY; PATULIN; PEG; PLANT ANATOMY AND MORPHOLOGY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; PLANT; SEEDLING; SIMULATION; SPACE;

CATALYSIS; CELLS; DNA; GRAVITATION; SEED; TISSUE;

ORBITER ENVIRONMENTAL SIMULATOR (OES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

NASA DISCIPLINE PLANT BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-95 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

CUCUMIS SATIVUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PLANT; ROTATION; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 0034816589     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2001.1130218.x     Document Type: Article

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