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Zahra Imanifard1, Elodie Vandelle1, Diana Bellin2

  • 1Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|January 15, 2018
PubMed

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Arabidopsis thalianaCell death quantificationHypersensitive responseIon leakage assayProgrammed cell deathPseudomonas syringae pv. tomatoTrypan Blue staining

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