Sex-specific physiology and source-sink relations in the dioecious plant Silene latifolia

Oecologia

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-72

  Laporte, Marianne M ^a,b   Delph, Lynda F ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Flower photosynthesis; Physiological dimorphism; Reproductive effort; Silene latifulia; Source sink

Indexed keywords

SILENE LATIFOLIA;

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SOURCE-SINK RELATIONS;

EID: 0029668411     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00334408     Document Type: Article

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