Temperature stress and survival ability of mediterranean sclerophyllous plants

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 279-295

  Larcher, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll fluorescence; Frost resistance; Heat tolerance; Multiple summer stresses; Oleo Ceratonion; Photoinactivation; Photosynthetic function; Quercion ilicis; Stress indices; Winter depression; Xanthophyll pool

Indexed keywords

QUERCION; QUERCION ILICIS;

EID: 0034538305     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263500012331350455     Document Type: Article

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