PHLOEM UNLOADING: Sieve Element Unloading and Post-Sieve Element Transport

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 48, Issue , 1997, Pages 191-222

  Patrick, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apoplasm; Cellular pathway; Sucrose; Symplasm; Transport mechanisms and controls

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346581463     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.48.1.191     Document Type: Article

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