Picking battles wisely: Plant behaviour under competition

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 726-741

  Novoplansky, Ariel ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Competitive behaviour; Confrontation; Environmental information; Future perception; Metaplasticity; Phenotypic plasticity; Self non self; Somatic competition; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TOLERANCE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS;

EID: 66149084929     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.01979.x     Document Type: Article

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