Adaptations to flooding stress: From plant community to molecule

Plant Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 261-273

  Blom, C W P M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ethylene; Flooding; Floodplains; Life history strategies; Rumex; Soil biology

Indexed keywords

MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PLANT GROWTH; STRESS TOLERANCE;

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLOOD; PLANT COMMUNITY;

ACER; FROXINUS; QUERCUS; RIPARIA; RUMEX; RUMEX PALUSTRIS; SALICACEAE; SALIX; ULMUS;

EID: 0032993722     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1999.tb00252.x     Document Type: Review

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