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A Simple Chamber for Long-term Confocal Imaging of Root and Hypocotyl Development
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Growth patterns and gravitropic curvature of radish hypocotyls

F Grisafi1, D Manzo, S Trapani

  • 1Dipartimento di Scienze Botaniche dell'Universita di Palermo, Italy.

Cytobios
|January 1, 1996
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