Mucilage Secretion Regulated by Sex Pheromones in Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale Complex

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1081-1087

  Akatsuka, Satoko ^a,d   Sekimoto, Hiroyuki ^b   Iwai, Hiroaki ^c   Fukumoto, Ryo Hei ^a   Fujii, Tadashi ^a  

^a TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Closterium; Mucilage; Sex pheromone; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; ANGIOSPERMS; CLOSTRIDIUM; KINETICS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; URONIC ACIDS;

ALGAE; CLOSTERIUM; CLOSTERIUM PERACEROSUM; CLOSTERIUM PERACEROSUM-STRIGOSUM-LITTORALE COMPLEX; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0242485567     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg131     Document Type: Article

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