Growth and pigment production in two subarctic grass species under four different UV-B irradiation levels

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 701-707

  Gwynn Jones, Dylan ^a   Johanson, Ulf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Calamagrostis; grasses; growth; ozone depletion; subarctic; UV B radiation

Indexed keywords

CALAMAGROSTIS; CALAMAGROSTIS LAPPONICA; CALAMAGROSTIS PURPUREA; POACEAE;

EID: 0030515257     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1996.970410.x     Document Type: Article

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