Frost resistance of reproductive tissues during various stages of development in high mountain plants

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 88-100

  Neuner, Gilbert ^a   Erler, Agnes ^a   Ladinig, Ursula ^a   Hacker, Jürgen ^a   Wagner, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; COLD; FLOWER; FREEZING; PHYSIOLOGY; RANUNCULACEAE; SAXIFRAGACEAE; SILENE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; COLD TEMPERATURE; FLOWERS; FREEZING; RANUNCULUS; SAXIFRAGACEAE; SILENE;

RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS GLACIALIS;

EID: 84871342869     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2012.01616.x     Document Type: Article

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