Plant Sex Pheromones

Vitamins and Hormones

Volumn 72, Issue , 2005, Pages 457-478

  Sekimoto, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ALGA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ALGAE; PHEROMONES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS;

EID: 33646377431     PISSN: 00836729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0083-6729(05)72013-6     Document Type: Review

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