Beneficial effects of enhanced UV-B radiation under field conditions: Improvement of needle water relations and survival capacity of Pinus pinea L. seedlings during the dry Mediterranean summer

Plant Ecology

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 101-108

  Manetas, Yiannis ^a   Petropoulou, Yiola ^a   Stamatakis, Kostas ^a,d   Nikolopoulos, Dimostenis ^a   Levizou, Efi ^a   Psaras, George ^b   Karabourniotis, George ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cuticle; Pinus pinea; UV B radiation; Water relations

Indexed keywords

PINUS PINEA; PINACEAE;

DROUGHT; STONE PINE; ULTRAVIOLET-B;

GREECE, PATRAS;

EID: 0030618523     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009706806427     Document Type: Article

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