Fruit-bearing branchlets are carbon autonomous in mature broad-leaved temperate forest trees

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 651-659

  Hoch, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carpinus; Fagus; Non structural carbohydrates; Plant reproduction; Storage reserves; Tilia

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FRUITING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TREE;

CARPINUS; CARPINUS BETULUS; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; MALVACEAE; TILIA; TILIA PLATYPHYLLOS;

EID: 18044388003     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2004.01311.x     Document Type: Article

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