Drought enhances folivory by shifting foliar metabolomes in Quercus ilex trees

New Phytologist

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 874-885

  Rivas Ubach, Albert ^a,b   Gargallo Garriga, Albert ^a,b,c   Sardans, Jordi ^a,b   Oravec, Michal ^d   Mateu Castell, Laia ^a,b   Pérez Trujillo, Míriam ^c   Parella, Teodor ^c   Ogaya, Romà ^a,b   Urban, Otmar ^d   Peñuelas, Josep ^a,b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Drought; Ecology; Ecometabolomics; Folivory; Metabolomics; Stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DROUGHT STRESS; EVERGREEN TREE; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORY; INORGANIC SALT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHENOL; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SUGAR;

ILEX; QUERCUS ILEX;

AMINO ACID; POLYPHENOL;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; HERBIVORY; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; OAK; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; SPAIN; TREE;

AMINO ACIDS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DROUGHTS; HERBIVORY; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; POLYPHENOLS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUERCUS; SEASONS; SPAIN; TREES;

EID: 84898039833     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12687     Document Type: Article

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