An improved agar-plate method for studying root growth and response of Arabidopsis thaliana

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Xu, Weifeng ^a,b   Ding, Guochang ^c   Yokawa, Ken ^d   Baluška, František ^d   Li, Qian Feng ^a   Liu, Yinggao ^e   Shi, Weiming ^b   Liang, Jiansheng ^f   Zhang, Jianhua ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CALCIUM; PIN2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; SUCROSE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GRAVITROPISM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ION TRANSPORT; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ROOT; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

AGAR; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CALCIUM; GRAVITROPISM; ION TRANSPORT; LIGHT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ROOTS; SUCROSE;

EID: 84874314481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01273     Document Type: Article

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