Using excised leaves to screen lucerne for salt tolerance: Physiological and cytological evidence

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-41

  Smethurst, Christiane F ^a   Gill, Warwick M ^a   Shabala, Sergey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll fluorescence; Chloroplast structure; Excised leaves; Salinity; Sodium compartmentation; Thylakoids; Vacuole

Indexed keywords

MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 59349100177     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.4.1.7269     Document Type: Article

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