Growth, nutritional status, chlorophyll content, and antioxidant responses of the apple rootstock MM 111 shoots cultured under high boron concentrations in vitro

Journal of Plant Nutrition

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 575-583

  Sotiropoulos, Thomas E ^a,c   Molassiotis, Athanassios ^b   Almaliotis, Dimitrios ^a   Mouhtaridou, Gethsimani ^a   Dimassi, Kortessa ^b   Therios, Ioannis ^b   Diamantidis, Grigorios ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c Pomology Institute   (Greece)

Author keywords

Catalase; Malus domestica; Peroxidase; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 33644978854     PISSN: 01904167     EISSN: 15324087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01904160500526956     Document Type: Article

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