Root architecture: Influence of metameric organization and emission of lateral roots

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 307-320

  Chiatante, D ^a   Scippa, G S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Architecture; Lateral; Metameric; Root

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750210827     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263500600947749     Document Type: Review

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