Flavonoids in plant nuclei: Detection by laser microdissection and pressure catapulting (LMPC), in vivo staining, and uv-visible spectroscopic titration

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 163-174

  Polster, Jürgen ^a   Dithmar, Heike ^a   Burgemeister, Renate ^b   Friedemann, Gabriele ^b   Feucht, Walter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b A Company of the Carl Zeiss Group   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DNA; LASER APPLICATIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TITRATION;

BLUE-STAINED FLAVANOLS; HISTONES; LASER MICRODISSECTION; SPECTROSCOPIC TITRATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; CEDRUS; CEDRUS DEODARA; CEDRUS LIBANI; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PICEA ORIENTALIS; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; TSUGA; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

EID: 33747088484     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2006.00721.x     Document Type: Article

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