Electrical signals in avocado trees responses to light and water availability conditions

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-41

  Oyarce, Patricio ^a   Gurovich, Luis ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Avocado trees; Irrigation automation; Light and dark cycles; Plant electrical potential; Plant sensors; Plant signaling; Water availability

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; AVOCADO; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; DARKNESS; DROUGHT; LIGHT; MICROELECTRODE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL; TREE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; DARKNESS; DROUGHTS; LIGHT; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROELECTRODES; PERSEA; PLANT STEMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL; TREES; WATER;

PERSEA AMERICANA;

EID: 77749271411     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.5.1.10157     Document Type: Article

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