Light alters the allocation of nitrogen to cyanogenic glycosides in Eucalyptus cladocalyx

Oecologia

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 288-294

  Burns, Anna E ^a,b   Gleadow, Roslyn M ^a   Woodrow, Ian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cyanide; Herbivore defence; Nitrogen; Phenolics; Plant secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DEFENSE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CLADOCALYX;

EID: 0036933626     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1055-9     Document Type: Article

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