Effects of ecdysteroids on Chlorella vulgaris

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 349-357

  Bajguz, Andrzej ^a   Dinan, Laurence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CHLOROPHYLL; DNA; PROTEINS; RNA; SUGARS;

ECDYSTEROIDS; STIMULATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALGAE; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; EUKARYOTA; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE;

EID: 3142687002     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2004.00329.x     Document Type: Article

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