From shade avoidance responses to plant performance at vegetation level: Using virtual plant modelling as a tool

New Phytologist

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 268-272

  Bongers, Franca J ^a,b   Evers, Jochem B ^a   Anten, Niels P R ^a   Pierik, Ronald ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive significance; Competition; Functional structural plant (FSP) model; Phenotypic plasticity; Shade avoidance syndrome (SAS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923530889     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13041     Document Type: Letter

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