Melatonin in plants – Diversity of levels and multiplicity of functions

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue FEB2016, 2016, Pages

  Hardeland, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Auxin like; Circadian; Photoprotection; Seeds; Senescence; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960113705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00198     Document Type: Article

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