Optical properties and contribution of cuticle to UV protection in plants: Experiments with apple fruit

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 861-866

  Solovchenko, Alexei ^a   Merzlyak, Mark ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; QUERCETIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

APPLE; ARTICLE; CUTICLE; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; PERICARP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; CHEMISTRY; FRUIT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

FRUIT; MALUS; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; PHENOLS; PLANT EPIDERMIS; QUERCETIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0642285903     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b302478d     Document Type: Article

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