A role for reactive oxygen species in endosperm weakening

Seeds: Biology, Development and Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 287-295

  Muller K ^a   Hess, B ^a   Leubner Metzger, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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