Pine and mistletoes: How to live with a leak in the water flow and storage system?

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2565-2578

  Zweifel, Roman ^a,b   Bangerter, Sara ^b,c   Rigling, Andreas ^a   Sterck, Frank J ^d  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon starvation; drought stress; Pinus sylvestris; stomatal regulation; tree water deficit; Viscum album; water storage

Indexed keywords

CARBON; WATER;

ARTICLE; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; METABOLISM; PLANT STOMA; SCOTS PINE; TREE; VISCUM ALBUM;

CARBON; DROUGHTS; MISTLETOE; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PLANT STOMATA; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; TREES; WATER;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 84861172187     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err432     Document Type: Article

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