Responses of Quercus ilex from different provenances to experimentally imposed water stress

Biologia Plantarum

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 577-581

  Pesoli, P ^a   Gratani, L ^a   Larcher, W ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Institut fur Botanik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Drought stress; Leaf conductance; Leaf injury; Net photosynthetic rate; Relative water content; Water potential; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

ILEX; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 0043012043     PISSN: 00063134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024823830225     Document Type: Article

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