Intra-specific variability in biomass partitioning and carbon isotopic discrimination under moderate drought stress in seedlings from four Pinus pinaster populations

Tree Genetics and Genomes

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-178

  Aranda, Ismael ^a   Alía, Ricardo ^a   Ortega, Unai ^b   Dantas, Ângelo K ^b   Majada, Juan ^b  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Biomass allocation; Maritime pine; Population; Water stress

Indexed keywords

PINUS PINASTER;

EID: 75849134267     PISSN: 16142942     EISSN: 16142950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11295-009-0238-5     Document Type: Article

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