Probing spatio-temporal intracellular calcium variations in plants

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 479, Issue , 2009, Pages 79-92

  Mithöfer, Axel ^a   Mazars, Christian ^a   Maffei, Massimo E ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aequorin; Arabidopsis; Calcium sensitive dye; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Intracellular calcium concentrations; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84934440594     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-289-2_5     Document Type: Article

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