The effects of mechanical stress and spectral shading on the growth and allocation of ten genotypes of a stoloniferous plant

Annals of Botany

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 121-130

  Liu, Yun ^a,b   Schieving, Feike ^a   Stuefer, Josef F ^c   Anten, Niels P R ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allometry; Biomechanics; Clonal plants; Phenotypic plasticity; Potentilla reptans; Shade avoidance; Thigmomorphogenesis; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANGIOSPERM; BIOMECHANICS; CLONAL ORGANISM; GENOTYPE; GROWTH; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SHADING; YOUNG MODULUS;

POTENTILLA; POTENTILLA REPTANS;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; DARKNESS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; POTENTILLA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DARKNESS; GENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; POTENTILLA; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TROPISM;

EID: 33847792484     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcl230     Document Type: Article

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