Effects of temperature and light on the formation of chloroplast protrusions in leaf mesophyll cells of high alpine plants

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1347-1356

  Buchner, Othmar ^a   Holzinger, Andreas ^a   Lütz, Cornelius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fv F m; Membrane; Oxyria digyna; PSII efficiency; Ranunculus glacialis; Soldanella pusilla; Stroma; Stromule

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANGIOSPERM; CHLOROPLAST; LEAF; LIGHT EFFECT; LIGHT INTENSITY; MEMBRANE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CYTOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ALTITUDE; CHLOROPLASTS; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

CAREX CURVULA; LEONTODON HELVITICUS; OXYRIA DIGYNA; POA; POA ALPINA; POLYGONUM; POLYGONUM VIVIPARUM; RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS ALPESTRIS; RANUNCULUS GLACIALIS; SILENE; SILENE ACAULIS; SOLDANELLA PUSILLA;

EID: 34848882614     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2007.01707.x     Document Type: Article

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