Minimum hydraulic safety leads to maximum water-use efficiency in a forage grass

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 302-313

  Holloway Phillips, Meisha Marika ^a   Brodribb, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Grass; Hydraulic conductivity; Production; Safety margin; Stomatal regulation; Water stress; Water use efficiency; Xylem vulnerability

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CROP PRODUCTION; FORAGE; GAS EXCHANGE; GRASS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PHYTOMASS; WATER STRESS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; XYLEM;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; DEHYDRATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT; LOLIUM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STOMA; RANDOMIZATION; SOIL; TIME; XYLEM;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; DEHYDRATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT; LOLIUM; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STOMATA; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; WATER; XYLEM;

LOLIUM PERENNE;

EID: 78651288314     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2010.02244.x     Document Type: Article

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