The role of roots and cotyledons as storage organs in early stages of establishment in Quercus crispula: A quantitative analysis of the nonstructural carbohydrate in cotyledons and roots

Annals of Botany

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 537-545

  Kabeya, Daisuke ^a,b   Sakai, Satoki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate storage; Germination stage; Hypogeous plant; Mizunara oak; Quercus crispula blume; Resprouting; Seed reserves; Seedling; Shoot destruction; TNC

Indexed keywords

SEEDLING;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS CRISPULA;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COTYLEDON; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; OAK; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PLANT STEM; TIME;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COTYLEDON; LIGHT; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STEMS; QUERCUS; SEEDS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1542704259     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcg165     Document Type: Article

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