The winter-red-leaf syndrome in Pistacia lentiscus: Evidence that the anthocyanic phenotype suffers from nitrogen deficiency, low carboxylation efficiency and high risk of photoinhibition

Journal of Plant Physiology

Volumn 168, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2184-2187

  Nikiforou, Constantinos ^a   Nikolopoulos, Dimosthenis ^b   Manetas, Yiannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anthocyanins; Carboxylation efficiency; Nitrogen levels; Photoinhibition; Pistacia lentiscus

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PISTACIA; PLANT LEAF; SEASON;

ANTHOCYANINS; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PISTACIA; PLANT LEAVES; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEASONS;

PISTACIA LENTISCUS;

EID: 80955158510     PISSN: 01761617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2011.07.011     Document Type: Article

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