Seedling growth variation in response to sand burial in four Artemisia species from different habitats in the semi-arid dune field

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-47

  Liu, Bo ^a,b   Liu, Zhimin ^a   Guan, Dexin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Adventitious buds; Adventitious roots; Root:shoot ratio; Stem growth speed

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GROWTH RATE; SAND; SEED;

ADVENTITIOUS BUDS; ADVENTITIOUS ROOTS; STEM GROWTH SPEED;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA FRIGIDA; ARTEMISIA GMELINII; ARTEMISIA HALODENDRON;

EID: 38849097845     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-007-0167-6     Document Type: Article

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