Photosynthesizing in the rain: Beneficial effects of twig wetting on corticular photosynthesis through changes in the periderm optical properties

Flora

Volumn 199, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 334-341

  Manetas, Yiannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll fluorescence; Electron transport rate; Periderm transmittance; Photoinhibition; Rain duration

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTY; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RAINFALL;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS COCCIFERA;

EID: 3142716851     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0367-2530-00161     Document Type: Article

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