Responses to ultraviolet-B radiation by purely symbiotic and NO 3-fed nodulated tree and shrub legumes indigenous to southern Africa

Tree Physiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-192

  Chimphango, Samson B M ^a   Musil, Charles F ^b   Dakora, Felix D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b National Botanic Institute   (South Africa)

^c CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cyclopia maculata; Flavonoids; NO 3 supply; Nodulation and N2 fixation; Podalyria calyptrata; Soluble sugars; Starch; Virgilia oroboides

Indexed keywords

LEGUME; NITRATE; NODULATION; SYMBIOSIS; TREE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CYCLOPIA; CYCLOPIA MACULATA; FUNGI; PODALYRIA; PODALYRIA CALYPTRATA; RHIZOBIACEAE; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS; VIRGILIA; VIRGILIA OROBOIDES;

EID: 1542321057     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/24.2.181     Document Type: Article

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