Anatomical basis of variation in mesophyll resistance in eastern Australian sclerophylls: News of a long and winding path

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 5105-5119

  Tosens, Tiina ^a,b   Niinemets, Ülo ^b   Westoby, Mark ^a   Wright, Ian J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Anatomical model; cell wall thickness; diffusion limitations of photosynthesis; interspecific variability; leaf economics spectrum; mesophyll diffusion

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; CHLOROPLAST; DIFFUSION; HISTOLOGY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TREE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZAMIACEAE;

ANGIOSPERMS; AUSTRALIA; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPLASTS; DIFFUSION; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; ZAMIACEAE;

EID: 84865787523     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers171     Document Type: Article

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