A shift of paradigm is needed in plant science

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 446-450

  Ingestad, Torsten ^b   Ingestad, Ann Britt Lund ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

CO2 uptake; Controlled experiments; Methodology; Nutrient uptake; Relative addition rate; Relative growth rate; Relative uptake rate; Steady state; Transpiration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030821422     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.1010227.x     Document Type: Review

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