Growth responses of Arabidopsis DNA repair mutants to solar irradiation

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-192

  Britt, Anne ^a   Fiscus, Edwin L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENZYMES; OPTIMIZATION; PIGMENTS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

GROWTH PATTERNS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0037906100     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2003.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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