Tomato pollen respiration in relation to in vitro germination and pollen tube growth under favourable and stress-inducing temperatures

Sexual Plant Reproduction

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 219-224

  Karapanos, I C ^a   Akoumianakis, K A ^a   Olympios, C M ^a   Passam, Harold Christopher ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

CO2 production; Gametophyte vigour; Heat stress; Lycopersicon esculentum; Pollen respiration; Pollen tube metabolism

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL RESPIRATION; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; POLLEN; POLLEN TUBE; TEMPERATURE; TOMATO;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL RESPIRATION; GERMINATION; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; POLLEN; POLLEN TUBE; TEMPERATURE;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 77956171443     PISSN: 09340882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00497-009-0132-1     Document Type: Article

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