Relationship of cold acclimation, total phenolic content and antioxidant capacity with chilling tolerance in petunia (Petunia x hybrida)

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 225-232

  Pennycooke, Joyce C ^a,b   Cox, Sam ^a   Stushnoff, Cecil ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidant capacity; Chilling injury; Cold acclimation; Gentisic acid; Petunia x hybrida; Phenolic acids

Indexed keywords

TOLERANCE;

PETUNIA; PETUNIA HYBRIDA; PETUNIA X HYBRIDA;

EID: 13844278322     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2004.04.002     Document Type: Article

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