Seasonal fluctuations in leaf phenolic composition under UV manipulations reflect contrasting strategies of alder and birch trees

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 297-309

  Kotilainen, Titta ^a   Tegelberg, Riitta ^b   Julkunen Tiitto, Riitta ^c   Lindfors, Anders ^d,f   O'Hara, Robert B ^e   Aphalo, Pedro J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ALDER; ARTICLE; BIRCH; CHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEASON; TREE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ALNUS; BETULA; PHENOLS; PLANT LEAVES; SEASONS; TREES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ALNUS; ALNUS INCANA; BETULA PENDULA; BETULA PUBESCENS;

EID: 78649398621     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2010.01398.x     Document Type: Article

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