Structural and permeability properties of the soybean seed coat

Botany

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 219-227

  Qutob, Dinah ^a   Ma, Fengshan ^b   Peterson, Carol A ^b   Bernards, Mark A ^c   Gijzen, Mark ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cuticle; Glycine max; Lustre; Permeability; Pigmentation; Seed coat

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED; WATER;

CUTICLES; GLYCINE MAX; PIGMENTATION; SEED COATS;

CROPS;

CUTICLE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PERMEABILITY; PIGMENT; SEED SET; SOYBEAN; WATER UPTAKE;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 42449121728     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B08-002     Document Type: Review

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