The positive effect of skin transpiration in peach fruit growth

Journal of Plant Physiology

Volumn 167, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1033-1037

  Morandi, Brunella ^a   Manfrini, Luigi ^a   Losciale, Pasquale ^a   Zibordi, Marco ^a   Corelli Grappadelli, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fruit growth; Fruit transpiration; Prunus persica; Vascular flows; Water potential

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW KINETICS; FRUIT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PRUNUS; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; XYLEM;

BIOMASS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FRUIT; PHLOEM; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; PRUNUS; RHEOLOGY; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; WATER; XYLEM;

PRUNUS; PRUNUS PERSICA;

EID: 77954539499     PISSN: 01761617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2010.02.015     Document Type: Article

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