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High phenotypic plasticity of Suaeda maritima observed under hypoxic conditions in relation to its physiological basis.
Annals of botany - 1 Apr 2012
Wetson Anne M, Zörb Christian, John Elizabeth A, Flowers Timothy J
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Phenotypic plasticity, the potential of specific traits of a genotype to respond to different environmental conditions, is an important adaptive mechanism for minimizing potentially adverse effects of environmental fluctuations in space and time. Suaeda maritima shows morphologically different forms on high and low areas of the same salt marsh. Our aims were to examine whether these...
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