Responses of the clonal Fragaria vesca to microtopographic heterogeneity under different water and light conditions

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-9

  Roiloa, Sergio R ^a   Retuerto, Rubén ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clonal growth; Drought stress; Photosynthetic efficiency; Physiological integration; Source sink hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOMASS; CLONE; DROUGHT STRESS; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FRUIT; HETEROGENEITY; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RAMET; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

FRAGARIA VESCA; FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 34548279901     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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