Homeopathic treatment of Arabidopsis thaliana plants infected with Pseudomonas syringae

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Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 320-330

  Shah Rossi, Devika ^a,b   Heusser, Peter ^b   Baumgartner, Stephan ^a,b  

^a Society for Cancer Research   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Homeopathy; Plant disease; Pseudomonas syringae; Systemic acquired resistance (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BIPLANTOL; HOMEOPATHIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ARACHIDONIC ACID; PLANT EXTRACT; SALICYLIC ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PLANT DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOMEOPATHY; INFECTION RATE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLANT MODEL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SYSTEMIC ACQUIRED RESISTANCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INNATE IMMUNITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARACHIDONIC ACID; HOMEOPATHY; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SALICYLIC ACID;

EID: 66849132000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2009.38     Document Type: Article

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