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Intraspecific variation of a desert shrub species in phenotypic plasticity in response to sand burial.
The New phytologist - 1 Sept 2013
Xu Liang, Huber Heidrun, During Heinjo J, Dong Ming, Anten Niels P R
Abstract excerpt
Shoot elongation is one of the main plastic responses of plants to burial, a ubiquitous stress factor in dry ecosystems. Yet, intraspecific variation in this response to burial and the extent to which this variation is functionally coordinated with variation in other trait responses are largely unknown. We subjected seedlings of the shrub Caragana intermedia from 18 maternal parents (i.e. different half-sib...
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