Mineral Deposits in Ficus Leaves: Morphologies and Locations in Relation to Function1

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Plant Physiology

• Publication date

  2017-12-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1104/pp.17.01516PMID 29242376PMCID PMC5813535
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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