Testing the adaptive plasticity hypothesis for plant responses to neighbors

Plant Species Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-67

  Schmitt, Johanna ^a   Dudley, Susan A ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

phenotypic plasticity; photomorphogenesis; phytochrome; R:FR; shade avoidance

Indexed keywords

IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS CAPENSIS;

EID: 0030431806     PISSN: 0913557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-1984.1996.tb00109.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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