Effects of shoot apex removal in Lythrum salicaria (Lythraceae): Assessing the costs of reproduction and apical dominance

Annales Botanici Fennici

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-111

  Venecz, Judith I ^a   Aarssen, Lonnie W ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apical dominance; Compensatory responses; Lythrum salicaria

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031876102     PISSN: 00033847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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