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Francesca Resentini1, Cristina Ruberti1, Matteo Grenzi1
1Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Milano 20133, Italy.
Plant Physiology
|April 27, 2021
Abstract:
Recent insights about the transport mechanisms involved in the in and out of calcium ions in plant organelles, and their role in the regulation of cytosolic calcium homeostasis in different signaling pathways.
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