The physiological resilience of fern sporophytes and gametophytes: Advances in water relations offer new insights into an old lineage

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Pittermann, Jarmila ^a   Brodersen, Craig ^b   Watkins Jr , James E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Desiccation tolerance; Ferns; Gametophytes; Xylem transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893557079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00285     Document Type: Review

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