A new microscopic method to analyse desiccation-induced volume changes in aeroterrestrial green algae

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 263, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 192-199

  Lajos, K ^a,b   Mayr, S ^a   Buchner, O ^a   Blaas, K ^a   Holzinger, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Desiccation; hydraulic parameter; light microscopy; Streptophyta; water loss

Indexed keywords

DRIERS (MATERIALS);

DESICCATION; EXPOSED TO; GREEN ALGA; HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; MICROSCOPIC METHODS; RELATIVE AIR HUMIDITIES; STREPTOPHYTA; VOLUME CHANGE; VOLUME REDUCTIONS; WATER LOSS;

ALGAE;

SILICA GEL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; DESICCATION; GREEN ALGA; HUMIDITY; KLEBSORMIDIUM CRENULATUM; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; VOLUME; WATER LOSS; ZYGNEMA;

EID: 84978427682     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jmi.12409     Document Type: Article

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