A global analysis of parenchyma tissue fractions in secondary xylem of seed plants

New Phytologist

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1553-1565

  Morris, Hugh ^a   Plavcová, Lenka ^a   Cvecko, Patrick ^a   Fichtler, Esther ^b   Gillingham, Mark A F ^a   Martínez Cabrera, Hugo I ^c   Mcglinn, Daniel J ^d   Wheeler, Elisabeth ^e   Zheng, Jingming ^f   Ziemińska, Kasia ^g   Jansen, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d School of Business   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Axial parenchyma; Conifers; Growth form; Mean annual precipitation; Mean annual temperature; Ray parenchyma; Secondary xylem

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GROWTH FORM; GROWTH RATE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHRUB; TEMPERATURE; VINE; XYLEM;

CONIFEROPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

RAIN;

ANGIOSPERM; CLIMATE; CONIFER; CYTOLOGY; DATA BASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MESOPHYLL CELL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; TEMPERATURE; TREE; WOOD; XYLEM;

ANGIOSPERMS; CLIMATE; CONIFEROPHYTA; DATABASES AS TOPIC; MESOPHYLL CELLS; RAIN; SEEDS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPERATURE; TREES; WOOD; XYLEM;

EID: 84949035270     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13737     Document Type: Article

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