In vivo quantitative imaging of photoassimilate transport dynamics and allocation in large plants using a commercial positron emission tomography (PET) scanner

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Karve, Abhijit A ^a,b   Alexoff, David ^a,c   Kim, Dohyun ^a   Schueller, Michael J ^a   Ferrieri, Richard A ^a   Babst, Benjamin A ^a,d  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Purdue Research Foundation   (United States)

^c Five Eleven Pharma Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon allocation; Carbon 11 (11C); Imaging; Positron emission tomography (PET); Transport

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

BOTANY; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SORGHUM; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BOTANY; CARBON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SORGHUM;

EID: 84946546728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12870-015-0658-3     Document Type: Article

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