Desiccation resistance of adhesive secretion in the protocarnivorous plant roridula gorgonias as an adaptation to periodically dry environment

Planta

Volumn 232, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1511-1515

  Voigt, Dagmar ^a,b   Gorb, Stanislav ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesive secretion; Desiccation; Glandulartrichomes; Plant resin; Terpenoids; Ultra microbalance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; DESICCATION; DROUGHT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANGIOSPERMS; DESICCATION; DROUGHTS;

RORIDULA GORGONIAS;

EID: 78650309498     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-010-1270-2     Document Type: Article

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