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G Céccoli1, D Bustos, L I Ortega

  • 1Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral (CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Litoral), Esperanza, Argentina; CONICET, Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la República Argentina, Córdoba, Argentina.

Plant Biology (Stuttgart, Germany)
|June 20, 2014
PubMed
Summary

Sunflower leaf expansion kinetics were analyzed under salinity stress. While overall growth was reduced, specific sodium accumulation did not alter kinetics, though cell division was impacted in high-uptake lines.

Keywords:
Helianthus annuus L.leaf growthpavement cell shapesalinitysunflower

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