Melatonin in plants

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 527, Issue , 2003, Pages 593-597

  Caniato, Rosamaria ^b   Filippini, Raffaella ^b   Piovan, Anna ^b   Puricelli, Lucia ^b   Borsarini, Anna ^b   Cappelletti, Elsa M ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Biologia   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN; MELATONIN; PHYTOHORMONE; SCAVENGER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEED DORMANCY; TISSUE LEVEL;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 1042302726     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0135-0_68     Document Type: Conference Paper

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