Welwitschia mirabilis: CAM or not CAM - What is the answer?

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 389-395

  Von Willert, Dieter J ^a   Armbrüster, Nicole ^a   Drees, Tobias ^a   Zaborowski, Maik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Citric acid; CO2 uptake; Malic acid; Welwitschia mirabilis

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ECOSYSTEMS;

CRASSULACEAN ACID METABOLISM (CAM); GAS EXCHANGE MEASUREMENTS; PHOTORESPIRATION; PLANT GROWTH;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CRASSULACEAN ACID METABOLISM;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CITRIC ACID; ECOSYSTEMS; LEAVES; MALIC ACID; PLANTS;

COLOPHOSPERMUM MOPANE; CRASSULACEAE; MIRABILIS; WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS;

EID: 22344455322     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP01241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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