Rapid adjustment of leaf angle explains how the desert moss, syntrichia caninervis, copes with multiple resource limitations during rehydration

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 168-177

  Wu, Nan ^a   Zhang, Yuan Ming ^a   Downing, Alison ^b   Aanderud, Zachary T ^c   Tao, Ye ^a   Williams, Steven ^c  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

desiccation; leaf angle adjustment; leaf hair points (LHPs)

Indexed keywords

DESERT; DESICCATION; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MOSS; REHYDRATION; SHOOT; SURFACE AREA; SURVIVAL; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84891822008     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP13054     Document Type: Article

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