Medium-incorporated PEG-8000 reduces elongation, growth, and whole-canopy carbon dioxide exchange of marigold

HortScience

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 124-130

  Burnett, Stephanie E ^a   Van Iersel, Marc W ^b   Thomas, Paul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Marigold; Photosynthesis; Respiration; Seedling

Indexed keywords

OSMOSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEED;

DARK RESPIRATION; LEAF AREA RATIOS; MARIGOLD;

POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS;

DROUGHT; OSMOSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL; RESPIRATION; SEEDLINGS;

TAGETES; TAGETES PATULA;

EID: 32344453704     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.41.1.124     Document Type: Article

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