Challenges to understand plant responses to wind

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1057-1059

  Onoda, Yusuke ^a   Anten, Niels P R ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Leaf anatomy; Phenotypic plasticity; Plant architecture; Signal transduction thigmomorphogenesis; Wind

Indexed keywords

PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO MAJOR;

ARTICLE; DROUGHT; HISTOLOGY; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTAGO; WIND;

DROUGHTS; PLANTAGO; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WIND;

EID: 79960008208     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.6.7.15635     Document Type: Article

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