Measurement of leaf epidermal transmittance of UV radiation by chlorophyll fluorescence

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 754-763

  Bilger, Wolfgang ^a   Veit, Markus ^b   Schreiber, Lukas ^b   Schreiber, Ulrich ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll fluorescence; Epidermal transmittance; UV A radiation; UV B radiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031406273     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.1010411.x     Document Type: Article

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