Symplastic continuity between companion cells and the translocation stream: Long-distance transport is controlled by retention and retrieval mechanisms in the phloem

Plant Physiology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1518-1528

  Ayre, Brian G ^a   Keller, Felix ^b   Turgeon, Robert ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CARBOHYDRATES; CELL MEMBRANES; MOLECULES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

COMPANION CELLS;

CELLS;

EID: 0344511682     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.012054     Document Type: Article

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