Scaling the respiratory metabolism to phosphorus relationship in plant seedlings

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wang, Zhi Qiang ^a   Huang, Heng ^b   Deng, Jian Ming ^b   Liu, Jian Quan ^a,b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SEEDLING;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; SEEDLINGS;

EID: 84946925158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16377     Document Type: Article

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