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Growth and cortical microtubule dynamics in shoot organs under microgravity and hypergravity conditions

Kouichi Soga1, Kazuyuki Wakabayashi1, Takayuki Hoson1

  • 1a Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University , Osaka , Japan.

Plant Signaling & Behavior
|December 30, 2017
PubMed

Keywords:
65 kDa microtubule-associated protein-1 (MAP65-1)growth anisotropyhypergravitymicrogravitymicrotubule orientationspace experiment

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