Senescence progression in a single darkened cotyledon depends on the light status of the other cotyledon in Cucurbita pepo (zucchini) seedlings: Potential involvement of cytokinins and cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase activity

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 609-623

  Ananieva, Kalina ^a   Ananiev, Evguéni D ^b   Doncheva, Snejana ^a   Georgieva, Katya ^a   Tzvetkova, Nikolina ^c   Kamínek, Miroslav ^d   Motyka, Václav ^d   Dobrev, Petre ^d   Gajdošová, Silvia ^d,e   Malbeck, Jiri ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY   (Bulgaria)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CYTOKININ; CYTOKININ OXIDASE; INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; COTYLEDON; CYTOLOGY; DARKNESS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II; SQUASH; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLASTS; COTYLEDON; CUCURBITA; CYTOKININS; DARKNESS; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX;

CUCURBITA PEPO; CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. MELOPEPO;

EID: 55649116471     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2008.01161.x     Document Type: Article

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