Stomatal responses to changes in air humidity are not necessarily linked to nocturnal CO2 uptake in the CAM plant Plectranthus marrubioides Benth. (Lamiaceae)

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 393-399

  Herppich, W B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

air humidity response of stomata; crassulacean acid metabolism; drought stress; gas exchange; Lamiaceae; malic acid accumulation; Plectranthus marrubioides; temperature dependence

Indexed keywords

CRASSULACEAE; LAMIACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PLECTRANTHUS; PLECTRANTHUS MARRUBIOIDES;

EID: 0030934180     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1997.d01-74.x     Document Type: Article

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