The importance of blue light for leaf area expansion, development of photosynthetic apparatus, and chloroplast ultrastructure of Cucumis sativus grown under weak light

Photosynthetica

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 213-222

  Wang, X Y ^a   Xu, X M ^a   Cui, J ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

fluorescence transient; grana; JIP test; photosynthetic characteristics

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 84929709889     PISSN: 03003604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11099-015-0083-8     Document Type: Article

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