Clonal plasticity of aquatic plant species submitted to mechanical stress: Escape versus resistance strategy

Annals of Botany

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 989-996

  Puijalon, Sara ^a,b   Bouma, Tjeerd J ^b   Van Groenendael, Jan ^c   Bornette, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clonal architecture; Clonality; Escape; Mechanical stress; Mentha aquatica; Morphology; Phenotypic plasticity; Potamogeton coloratus; Resistance; Submerged aquatic vegetation; Thigmomorphogenesis

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; BIOMASS; CLONAL ORGANISM; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RAMET; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; FLOW KINETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MECHANICAL STRESS; MENTHA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; POTAMOGETONACEAE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

CLONE CELLS; MENTHA; PLANT STEMS; POTAMOGETONACEAE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

MENTHA; MENTHA AQUATICA; POTAMOGETON COLORATUS;

EID: 56449089856     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcn190     Document Type: Article

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