Nectar-carbohydrate production and composition vary in relation to nectary anatomy and location within individual flowers of several species of Brassicaceae

Planta

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 305-318

  Davis, Arthur R ^a   Pylatuik, Jeffrey D ^a   Paradis, Joelle C ^a   Low, Nicholas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brassicaceae; Carbohydrate (floral nectar); Floral nectary (anatomy); Nectary (intrafloral location); Nectary phloem; Stoma (modified)

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CARBOHYDRATE PRODUCTION; ENZYMOLOGY; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; GUARD CELL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NECTAR; PHLOEM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STOMATA; SUCROSE;

BRASSICA; BRASSICACEAE; CARBOHYDRATES;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICACEAE; HESPERIS MATRONALIS; LOBULARIA MARITIMA; MATTHIOLA; MATTHIOLA BICORNUS; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; SINAPIS ARVENSIS; SISYMBRIUM LOESELII;

EID: 0032103498     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250050325     Document Type: Article

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