Resource allocation in different parts of juvenile mountain birch plants: Effect of nitrogen supply on seedling phenolics and growth

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 114-126

  Keski Saari, Sarita ^a   Julkunen Tiitto, Riitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPOSITION; ORGANIC ACIDS; PHENOLS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEED;

TANNINS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOMASS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ORGANIC ACIDS; PHENOLS; PLANTS; SEEDS;

BETULA; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA;

EID: 0038740593     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2003.00077.x     Document Type: Article

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