The role of biomass allocation in the growth response of plants to different levels of light, CO2, nutrients and water: A quantitative review

IMF Occasional Papers

Volumn , Issue 189, 2000, Pages 595-607

  Hendrik Poorte, A ^a   Nagel, Oscar ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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