The effect of light quality on leaf production and development of in vitro-cultured plants of Alternanthera brasiliana Kuntze

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-50

  Macedo, Andrea Furtado ^a   Leal Costa, Marcos Vinícius ^b   Tavares, Eliana Schwartz ^b   Lage, Celso Luiz Salgueiro ^a,b   Esquibel, Maria Apparecida ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alternanthera sp.; In vitro culture; Photomorphogenesis; Plant development; Spectral quality

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ANATOMY; HERB; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; LIGHT EFFECT; LIGHT QUALITY; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SPECTRUM; STOMATA;

ALTERNANTHERA; ALTERNANTHERA BRASILIANA; AMARANTHACEAE;

EID: 77956882629     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2010.05.012     Document Type: Article

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