Oxidative Stress and Leaf Senescence

Senescence Processes in Plants

Volumn 26, Issue , 2007, Pages 69-86

  Zentgraf, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Leaf senescence; Oxidative stress; Peroxisomes; ROS signaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948406826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988855.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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