Influences of air humidity during the cultivation of plants on wax chemical composition, morphology and leaf surface wettability

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-9

  Koch, Kerstin ^a   Hartmann, Klaus Dieter ^a   Schreiber, Lukas ^a   Barthlott, Wilhelm ^a   Neinhuis, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air humidity; Brassica oleracea; Epicuticular waxes; Eucalyptus gunnii; Tropaeolum majus; Wettability

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; LEAF; WAX; WETTABILITY;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA OLERACEA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; BRASSICACEAE; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GUNNII; MYRTACEAE; TROPAEOLACEAE; TROPAEOLUM; TROPAEOLUM MAJUS;

EID: 32244446878     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2004.09.013     Document Type: Article

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