The "root" experiment of the "cervantes" Spanish Soyuz mission: Cell proliferation and nucleolar activity alterations in arabidopsis roots germinated in real or simulated microgravity

Microgravity Science and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 128-132

  Matía, Isabel ^a   González Camacho, Fernando ^a   Marco, Roberto ^b   Kiss, John Z ^c   Gasset, Gilbert ^d   Van Loon, Jack ^e   Medina, Francisco Javier ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ALDEHYDES; CELL PROLIFERATION; GRAVITATION; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; MICROGRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; SPACE SHUTTLES; SPACE STATIONS; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

(ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC) STRESS; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; ARABIDOPSIS ROOTS; ARABIDOPSIS SEEDS; CELL CYCLING; CELLULAR PROCESSES; DEFENCE MECHANISMS; GLUTARALDEHYDE (GTA); IMMUNOCYTOCHEMICAL; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ITS); MERISTEMATIC CELLS; NUCLEOLIN; PARAFORMALDEHYDE; RANDOM POSITIONING; RIBOSOME BIOGENESIS; SHUTTLE (CO); SIMULATED MICROGRAVITY; SPANISH;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 46149083000     PISSN: 09380108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02919467     Document Type: Article

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