Differentiation in populations of Hordeum spontaneum Koch along a gradient of environmental productivity and predictability: Plasticity in response to water and nutrient stress

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 301-312

  Volis, Sergei ^a   Mendlinger, Samuel ^a   Ward, David ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Canonical discriminant analysis; Ecotype; Local adaptation; Plant strategy; Plasticity; Reaction norm; Stress

Indexed keywords

ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; WATER STRESS;

ISRAEL;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. SPONTANEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 0036520901     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00020.x     Document Type: Article

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