Desiccation tolerance of five tropical seedlings in Panama. Relationship to a field assessment of drought performance

Plant Physiology

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1439-1447

  Tyree, Melvin T ^a   Engelbrecht, Bettina M J ^b   Vargas, Gustavo ^c   Kursar, Thomas A ^c  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; DROUGHT; FLOWMETERS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HARVESTING; SEED; THERMOCOUPLES;

DESICCATION TOLERANCE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 0037700745     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.102.018937     Document Type: Article

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