The Adaptive Evolution of Plasticity: Phytochrome-Mediated Shade Avoidance Responses

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 459-469

  Schmitt, Johanna ^a   Stinchcombe, John R ^a   Shane Heschel, M ^a,b   Huber, Heidrun ^a,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS CAPENSIS;

EID: 1042267811     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/43.3.459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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