Response to artificial drying until drought-induced death in different elevation populations of a high-mountain plant

Plant Biology

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 93-100

  García Fernández, Alfredo ^a   Iriondo, Jose M ^a   Bartels, Dorothea ^b   Escudero, Adrián ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drought stress; Local adaptation; Mountain plant; Photosynthetic performance; Protein expression

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WATER;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBODY; CLIMATE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN; PASTURE; PERENNIAL PLANT; PLANT; WATER STRESS;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DESICCATION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SILENE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; CLIMATE; DESICCATION; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PLANT PROTEINS; SILENE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER;

CILIOPHORA; SILENE;

EID: 84871665908     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: 14388677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00638.x     Document Type: Article

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