Ethylene Production by Plant Cell Cultures: Variations in Production during Growing Cycle and in Different Plant

T A Larue1, O L Gamborg

  • 1National Research Council of Canada, Prairie Regional Laboratory, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Plant Physiology
|October 1, 1971
PubMed

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