Experimental approaches to study plant cell walls during plant-microbe interactions

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Xia, Ye ^a   Petti, Carloalberto ^a   Williams, Mark A ^a   DeBolt, Seth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell imaging; Cell wall; Metabolic profiling; Phytobiome; Plant microbe interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907972335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00540     Document Type: Article

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