Nodule initiation involves the creation of a new symplasmic field in specific root cells of medicago species

Arnaud Complainville1, Lysiane Brocard, Ian Roberts

  • 1Institut des Sciences du Végétal-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France.

The Plant Cell
|November 15, 2003
PubMed

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