Effects of water flow from the xylem on the growth-induced water potential and the growth-effective turgor associated with enlarging tomato fruit

Environmental Control in Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 101-116

  Hossain, Md Mokter ^a   Nonami, Hiroshi ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell wall extensibility; Heat girdling; Hydraulic conductivity; Solanum lycopersicum L.; Turgor

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953683471     PISSN: 1880554X     EISSN: 18830986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2525/ecb.48.101     Document Type: Article

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