Intraspecific variation in the resistance to flooding and drought in populations of Paspalum dilatatum from different topographic positions

Oecologia

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 279-284

  Loreti, J ^a   Oesterheld, M ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiologicas y Ecologicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Drought; Flooding; Intraspecific variation; Paspalum dilatatum; Stress

Indexed keywords

PASPALUM; PASPALUM DILATATUM; POACEAE;

AERENCHYMA; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; FLOODING; TOPOGRAPHIC GRADIENT; YIELD;

ARGENTINA;

EID: 0029659294     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00334652     Document Type: Article

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