Effects of elevated ultraviolet-B radiation on native and cultivated plants of southern Africa

Annals of Botany

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 127-137

  Musil, Charles F ^a   Chimphango, Samson B M ^b   Dakora, Felix D ^b  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African plant; Carbohydrate; Chlorophyll; Cliffortia ruscifolia; Colophosperrnum mopane; Flavonoid; Growth; Leaf area; Leucadendron laureolum; Morphology; Plant growth form; Podalyria calyptrata; Protea burchellii; Ultraviolet B radiation; Virgilia oroboides

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; GROWTH RESPONSE; NATIVE SPECIES; OZONE DEPLETION; PLANT; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ARTICLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOUTH AFRICA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

PLANTS; SOUTH AFRICA; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

AFRICA;

CLIFFORTIA; CLIFFORTIA RUSCIFOLIA; COLOPHOSPERMUM MOPANE; LEUCADENDRON; LEUCADENDRON LAUREOLUM; PODALYRIA; PODALYRIA CALYPTRATA; PROTEA; VIGNA; VIGNA UNGUICULATA; VIRGILIA; VIRGILIA OROBOIDES; ASPALATHUS LINEARIS; BARLERIA; CYCLOPIA GENISTOIDES; GLYCINE MAX; LUPINUS LUTEUS; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PHYLICA PUBESCENS; PROTEA BURCHELLII; VICIA BENGHALENSIS; VIGNA SUBTERRANEA;

EID: 0036302395     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcf156     Document Type: Article

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