Juvenile tank-bromeliads lacking tanks: Do they engage in CAM photosynthesis?

Photosynthetica

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-62

  Beltran J D ^a   Lasso, E ^a   Madrinan S ^a   Virgo, A ^b   Winter, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

bromeliads; carbon isotope discrimination; crassulacean acid metabolism; drought stress; Guzmania; heteroblasty; photosynthesis; Werauhia

Indexed keywords

BROMELIACEAE; CRASSULACEAE; GUZMANIA; GUZMANIA LINGULATA; GUZMANIA MONOSTACHIA; WERAUHIA;

EID: 84874218402     PISSN: 03003604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11099-012-0077-8     Document Type: Article

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