Avicennia germinans (black mangrove) vessel architecture is linked to chilling and salinity tolerance in the Gulf of Mexico

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Madrid, Eric N ^a   Armitage, Anna R ^a   Lopez Portillo, Jorge ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^b Red de Ecologia Funcional Instituto de Ecologfa AC   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Evolution; Phenotypic plasticity; Safe xylem hydraulic architecture; Salt marsh; Spartina alterniflora; Vessel architecture; Wetland

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907582618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00503     Document Type: Article

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