Functional traits related to seedling performance in the Mediterranean leguminous shrub Retama sphaerocarpa: Insights from a provenance, fertilization, and rhizobial inoculation study

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 145-154

  Villar Salvador, Pedro ^a,d   Valladares, Fernando ^b   Domínguez Lerena, Susana ^d   Ruiz Díez, Beatriz ^b   Fernández Pascual, Mercedes ^b   Delgado, Antonio ^c   Peñuelas, Juan Luis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d DGB Ministerio de Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carotenoid; Nodulation; RAPD; Revegetation; RGR; Seed source; Survival

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; INOCULATION; LEGUME; NODULATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL; TRANSPLANTATION; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM; RETAMA SPHAEROCARPA;

EID: 50849100117     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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