Wood formation in rolC transgenic aspen trees

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 297-304

  Grünwald, Claudia ^a   Deutsch, Frank ^a   Eckstein, Dieter ^a   Fladung, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auxin hypothesis; Bud break; Cambium dynamics; rolC transgenic aspen; Wood formation

Indexed keywords

POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 0343238395     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00009771     Document Type: Article

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