Effects of drought on non-mycorrhizal and mycorrhizal maize: Changes in the pools of non-structural carbohydrates, in the activities of invertase and trehalase, and in the pools of amino acids and imino acids

New Phytologist

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-66

  Schellenbaum, L ^a,b   Muller J ^a   Boller, T ^a   Wiemken, A ^a   Schuepp H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Eidgenossische Forsch Anst F O   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis; Drought stress; Hexoses; Maize; Trehalose

Indexed keywords

GLOMUS MOSSEAE;

EID: 2642705013     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1998.00892.x     Document Type: Article

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