Photosynthetic responses of heat-tolerant and heat-sensitive cultivars of impatiens hawkeri and viola x wittrockiana to high temperature exposures

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 580, Issue , 2002, Pages 215-219

  Warner, R M ^a   Erwin, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat stress; Light response curve; New guinea impatiens; Pansy; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865339782     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2002.580.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. Berry, J. and Bjorkman, O. 1980. Photosynthetic response and adaptation to temperature in higher plants. Ann. Rev. Plant Physiol. 31:491-543.
2. Dinar, M. and Rudich, J. 1985. Effect of heat stress on assimilate partitioning in tomato. Ann. Bot. 56:239-248.
3. Kuo, C.G. and Tsai, C.T. 1984. Alteration by high temperature of auxin and gibberellin concentrations in the floral buds, flowers, and young fruit of tomato. Hortscience 19:870-872.
4. Larcher, W. 1995. Physiological Plant Ecology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pp. 506.
5. Ranney, T.G. and Peet, M.M. 1994. Heat tolerance of five taxa of birch (Betula): physiological responses to supraoptimal leaf temperatures. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 119:243-248.
6. Smillie, R.M., Critchley, C., Bain, J.M. and Nott, R. 1978. Effect of growth temperature on chloroplast structure and activity in barley. Plant Physiol. 62:191-196.
7. Strope, K.M. 1999. The effects of heat stress on flowering and vegetative growth of New Guinea impatiens (Impatiens hawkeri Bull.). MS Thesis. Dept. of Hortic. Science, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul.