Sequence of drought response of maize seedlings in drying soil

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-168

  Schmidhalter, Urs ^a   Evéquoz, Michel ^b   Camp, Karl Heinz ^a   Studer, Christoph ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ICRISAT Sahelian Center   (Niger)

Author keywords

Leaf elongation; Leaf water relations; Root diameter; Root length; Root osmotic potential; Root water potential; Root water relations; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; DROUGHT; OSMOTIC POTENTIAL; SEEDLING; SOIL; TURGOR; WATER POTENTIAL;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031735155     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1998.1040203.x     Document Type: Article

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