Responses of legume versus nonlegume tropical tree seedlings to elevated CO2 concentration

Plant Physiology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 372-385

  Cernusak, Lucas A ^a   Winter, Klaus ^b   Martínez, Carlos ^b   Correa, Edwin ^b   Aranda, Jorge ^b   Garcia, Milton ^b   Jaramillo, Carlos ^b   Turner, Benjamin L ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

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EID: 80052406943     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.182436     Document Type: Article

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