The oxygen isotope enrichment of leaf-exported assimilates - does it always reflect lamina leaf water enrichment?

New Phytologist

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 144-157

  Gessler, Arthur ^a,b,c   Brandes, Elke ^b   Keitel, Claudia ^c,d   Boda, Sonja ^e   Kayler, Zachary E ^a   Granier, André ^b   Barbour, Margaret ^d   Farquhar, Graham D ^c   Treydte, Kerstin ^e  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^b LERFoB   (France)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Broadleaf; Conifer; Diel course; Oxygen atom exchange; Phloem transport

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAF; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PHLOEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; SOLUBILITY; TREE RING; WOOD;

CONIFEROPHYTA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS DELEGATENSIS; LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

CARBOHYDRATE; CELLULOSE; OXYGEN; WATER;

ARTICLE; BROADLEAF; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFER; DIEL COURSE; EUCALYPTUS; LARIX; OXYGEN ATOM EXCHANGE; PHLOEM; PHLOEM TRANSPORT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SCOTS PINE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TREE; WOOD;

BROADLEAF; CONIFER; DIEL COURSE; OXYGEN ATOM EXCHANGE; PHLOEM TRANSPORT;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBOHYDRATES; CELLULOSE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUCALYPTUS; LARIX; OXYGEN; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PHLOEM; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PLANT LEAVES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREES; WATER; WOOD;

EID: 84883053361     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12359     Document Type: Article

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