Aerenchyma development and elevated alcohol dehydrogenase activity as alternative responses to hypoxic soils in the Piriqueta caroliniana complex

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 542-550

  Benz, Bryan R ^a   Rhode, Jennifer M ^b   Cruzan, Mitchell B ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA COLLEGE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive plasticity; Alcohol dehydrogenase; Flooding; Florida; Hybrid breakdown; Hydric soils; Hypoxia; Turneraceae

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALCOHOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; FLOOD; GROWTH RATE; HERB; HYBRID; HYPOXIA; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SOIL QUALITY;

PIRIQUETA CISTOIDES SUBSP. CAROLINIANA; TURNERACEAE;

EID: 34250727188     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.94.4.542     Document Type: Article

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