The Response of Spartium junceum roots to slope: Anchorage and gene factors

Annals of Botany

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 857-866

  Scippa, Gabriella Stefania ^a   Di Michele, Michela ^a   Di Iorio, Antonino ^b   Costa, Antonello ^c   Lasserre, Bruno ^a   Chiatante, Donato ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anchorage; cDNA AFLP; Lignin; Pulling; Root; Root morphology; Slope; Spartium junceum

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIGNIN; PLANT DNA;

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE; LANDSLIDE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PLANT; ROOT;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEEDLING; SPARTIUM;

DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GEOGRAPHY; LIGNIN; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPARTIUM;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CYTISUS MULTIFLORUS; SPARTIUM; SPARTIUM JUNCEUM;

EID: 33646268793     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcj603     Document Type: Conference Paper

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