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Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana Growth Behavior in Different Light Qualities
Published on: February 2, 2018
Variation of leaf photosynthetic traits is mostly driven by changes in source-sink relationship rather than
Ningyi Zhang1,2, Ziyi Yang3, Elias Kaiser4,5
1State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Breeding, Sanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China. ningyi.zhang@njau.edu.cn.
BMC Plant Biology
|March 2, 2026
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