Nitrogen nutrition and drought hardening exert opposite effects on the stress tolerance of Pinus pinea L. seedlings

Tree Physiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 221-232

  Villar Salvador, Pedro ^a,c   Peñuelas, Juan L ^a   Jacobs, Douglass F ^b  

^a Ministerio de Agricultura Alimentación y Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbohydrates; Drought tolerance; Frost damage; Mediterranean; Plasmalemma stability; Residual transpiration; Root growth capacity; Stomatal conductance; Survival

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; NITROGEN; WATER;

ACCLIMATION; ADAPTATION; CARBOHYDRATE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEHYDRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GAS EXCHANGE; GROWTH RATE; NITROGEN; NUTRITION; SEEDLING; SOLUBILIZATION; STABILIZATION; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; SUGAR; SURVIVAL; TOLERANCE; TRANSPIRATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; COLD; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STOMA; SEEDLING; TREE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD TEMPERATURE; DROUGHTS; FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PINUS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STOMATA; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; SEEDLING; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TREES; WATER;

PINUS PINEA;

EID: 84876352079     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tps133     Document Type: Article

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