Changes in plasmodesmata frequency in vascular bundles of maize seedling leaf induced by growth at sub-optimal temperatures in relation to photosynthesis and assimilate export

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-196

  Sowiński, Paweł ^a,b   Rudzińska Langwald, Anna ^c   Kobus, Paweł ^c  

^a PLANT BREEDING AND ACCLIMATIZATION INSTITUTE NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

C4 photosynthesis; Chilling; Kranz anatomy; Maize; Short distance transport; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 10744226232     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-8472(03)00021-2     Document Type: Article

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