Photosynthetic flexibility and ecophysiological plasticity: Questions and lessons from Clusia, the only CAM tree, in the neotropics

New Phytologist

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-25

  Lüttge, Ulrich ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clusia; Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM); Ecophysiology; Neotropics; Photosynthesis; Phylogeny; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CITRIC ACID; MALIC ACID; MALIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

CRASSULACEAN ACID METABOLISM; DICOTYLEDON; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TREE;

BRAZIL; CLUSIA; ECOSYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PANAMA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; TROPIC CLIMATE; VENEZUELA;

BRAZIL; CARBON; CITRIC ACID; CLUSIA; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; MALATES; PANAMA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VENEZUELA;

BROMELIACEAE; CRASSULACEAE; KALANCHOE;

EID: 33744921894     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01755.x     Document Type: Review

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