Leaf movements of bean plants and lunar gravity

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1083-1090

  Barlow, Peter W ^a   Klingelé, Emile ^b   Klein, Gunter ^c   Sen, Miroslav Mikulecký ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Neuroendocrinology Letters ^*

Author keywords

Lunar gravity; Nastic leaf movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749112913     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.3.12.6906     Document Type: Article

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