Sex-specific physiological, allocation and growth responses to water availability in the subdioecious plant Honckenya peploides

Plant Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 243-254

  Sanchez Vilas J ^a   Retuerto, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll fluorescence; Leaf spectral reflectance; Photochemical efficiency; Relative growth rate; Sex spatial segregation; Subdioecy; Water stress

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; WATER;

CHLOROPHYLL; DICOTYLEDON; DIOECY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HABITAT TYPE; LEAF AREA; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PHYTOMASS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; STOMATA; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER STRESS;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; DEHYDRATION; FLUORESCENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; CHLOROPHYLL; DEHYDRATION; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

HONCKENYA PEPLOIDES;

EID: 60349091721     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2008.00105.x     Document Type: Article

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