Architecture of coastal and desert Encelia farinosa (Asteraceae): Consequences of plastic and heritable variation in leaf characters

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1303-1310

  Housman, David C ^a,b   Price, Mary V ^a   Redak, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteraceae; Environmental gradient; Growth rate; Herbivory; Heritability; Leaf pubescence; Local adaptation; Phenotypic plasticity; Plant architecture; Trirhabda geminata

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GROWTH RATE; HERITABILITY; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT ARCHITECTURE;

ASTERACEAE; ENCELIA; ENCELIA FARINOSA; TRIRHABDA; TRIRHABDA GEMINATA;

EID: 0036678765     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.89.8.1303     Document Type: Article

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