Responses in tomato roots to stress caused by exposure to (+)-usnic acid

Allelopathy Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 239-252

  Latkowska, E ^a   Bialczyk, J ^a   Lechowski, Z ^b   Czaja Prokop, U ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b JAN KOCHANOWSKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Antioxidative enzymes; Ion leakage and uptake; Root physiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859527988     PISSN: 09714693     EISSN: 09741240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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