Physiological adaptation before and after snow melt in green overwintering leaves of some alpine plants

Phyton - Annales Rei Botanicae

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 139-156

  Lutz C ^a   Schonauer E ^b   Neuner, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Chl fluorescence; Development; Flavonoids; Pigments

Indexed keywords

HOMOGYNE; HOMOGYNE ALPINA; KALMIA; KALMIA PROCUMBENS; RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM;

EID: 30944434442     PISSN: 00792047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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