Pyrimidine deoxyribonucleotide metabolism during maturation and germination of white spruce (Picea glauca) somatic embryos: Metabolic fate of C-labelled cytidine, deoxycytidine and thymidine

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 499-506

  Stasolla, Claudio ^a,c   Loukanina, Natalia ^a   Ashihara, Hiroshi ^b   Yeung, Edward C ^a   Thorpe, Trevor A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; DNA; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA; SEED; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

GERMINATION;

METABOLISM;

PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 0041520877     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2003.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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