Bioelectrical characterization of tree conditions and slime cells in the bark as possible symptoms of silver fir decline

Phyton - Annales Rei Botanicae

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 35-38

  Torelli, Niko ^a   Čufar, Katarina ^a   Oven, Primož ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Abies alba Mill. = silver fir; Bark; Decline; Electrical resistance; Slime cells; Traumatic resin canals; Wood

Indexed keywords

EID: 2842609221     PISSN: 00792047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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