Expression of starch metabolic genes in the developing nectaries of ornamental tobacco plants

Plant Science

Volumn 173, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 621-637

  Ren, Gang ^a   Healy, Rosanne A ^a   Horner, Harry T ^a   James, Martha G ^a   Thornburg, Robert W ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nectar; Nectary; Nicotiana; Ornamental tobacco; Starch metabolism gene expression

Indexed keywords

METABOLISM; PLANTS (BOTANY); STARCH; TOBACCO; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

NECTAR; NECTARY; NICOTIANA; ORNAMENTAL TOBACCO; STARCH METABOLISM GENE EXPRESSION;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA ALATA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 35248899300     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2007.08.012     Document Type: Article

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