The secret phloem of pumpkins

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 30, 2010, Pages 13201-13202

  Turgeon, Robert ^a   Oparka, Karl ^b  

^a Department of Plant Biology Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA; SUGAR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; CARBOHYDRATE; PLANT EXUDATE; PROTEOME;

APHID; CUCUMBER; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DISSECTION; FRUIT; FRUIT GROWTH; MELON; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHLOEM; PHOTOSYNTHATE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT GENOME; PLANT NUTRIENT; PLANT ROOT; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PUMPKIN; RNA ANALYSIS; SIEVE TUBE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES; SQUASH; TUBER (GENUS); ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CUCURBITACEAE; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; PLANT EXUDATE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBOHYDRATES; CUCURBITA; CUCURBITACEAE; METABOLOME; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHLOEM; PLANT EXUDATES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEOME;

EID: 77955777920     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1008134107     Document Type: Note

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