Ageing of trees: Application of general ageing theories

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 855-866

  Brutovská, Eva ^a   Sámelová, Andrea ^a   Dušička, Jozef ^a   Mičieta, Karol ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Ageing theory; Plant senescence; Sectoriality; Tree longevity

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; GENOMIC DNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SILVER; SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

AGE; AGING; APOPTOSIS; BODY SIZE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR ORGANISM; CHLOROPLAST; CLONAL VARIATION; CONCEPTION; DEGENERATION; DETERIORATION; ENERGY YIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FRUITING BODY; GERM LINE; GROWING SEASON; HEART MITOCHONDRION; LARREA; LONGEVITY; MERISTEM; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; OXIDATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SEED; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; PROGENY; PROTOZOON; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SOMATIC MUTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TREE; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

AGEING THEORY; PLANT SENESCENCE; SECTORIALITY; TREE LONGEVITY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL AGING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

EID: 84882701605     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: 18729649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2013.07.001     Document Type: Review

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