Drought affects tracheid structure, dehydrin expression, and above- and belowground growth in 5-year-old Norway spruce

Plant and Soil

Volumn 366, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 305-320

  Eldhuset, Toril Drabløs ^a   Nagy, Nina Elisabeth ^a   Volařík, Daniel ^b   Børja, Isabella ^a   Gebauer, Roman ^b   Yakovlev, Igor A ^a   Krokene, Paal ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Dehydrin; Fine roots; Needles; Norway spruce; Picea abies; Tracheid structure

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DIAMETER; DIMENSION STONE; DROUGHT STRESS; FINE ROOT; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PHYTOMASS; PROTEIN; SHOOT;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84876421567     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1432-z     Document Type: Article

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