Plant Leaves - Physiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Seeing the forest with the leaves - clues to canopy placement from leaf fossil size and venation characteristics.

16 Dec 2009 Although a variety of leaf characteristics appear to be induced by light environment during development, analysis of ontogenetic changes in living broad leaved trees has suggested that a number of other traits also lumped into the classic 'sun' ... Read more...

Long-term persistence of a neotropical ant-plant population in the absence of obligate plant-ants.

30 Aug 2009 Interactions between ants and ant-plants are considered classic examples of obligate mutualisms. Previous studies have indicated that for many ant-plants the loss of ant colonies results in severe defoliation or mortality. Although individual plants ... Read more...

A non-invasive probe for online-monitoring of turgor pressure changes under field conditions.

30 Aug 2009 An advanced non-invasive, field-suitable and inexpensive leaf patch clamp pressure probe for online-monitoring of the water relations of intact leaves is described. The probe measures the attenuated output patch clamp pressure, P(p), of a clamped ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Plant Leaves - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Seeing the forest with the leaves - clues to canopy placement from leaf fossil size and venation characteristics. 16 Dec 2009
• Long-term persistence of a neotropical ant-plant population in the absence of obligate plant-ants. 30 Aug 2009
• A non-invasive probe for online-monitoring of turgor pressure changes under field conditions. 30 Aug 2009
• Signals and prepatterns: new insights into organ polarity in plants. 30 Aug 2009
• Transcriptional and metabolic profiles of Lolium perenne L. genotypes in response to a PEG-induced water stress. 17 Aug 2009
• Multi-sensor plant imaging: Towards the development of a stress-catalogue. 30 Jul 2009
• Mesophyll distribution of 'antioxidant' flavonoid glycosides in Ligustrum vulgare leaves under contrasting sunlight irradiance. 23 Jul 2009
• Are species shade and drought tolerance reflected in leaf-level structural and functional differentiation in Northern Hemisphere temperate woody flora? 19 Jul 2009
• Murray's law, the 'Yarrum' optimum, and the hydraulic architecture of compound leaves. 11 Jul 2009
• Evolution of feeding preference in a leaf beetle: the importance of phenotypic plasticity of a host plant. 11 Jul 2009
• The hydrophobicity of a lotus leaf: a nanomechanical and computational approach. 6 Jul 2009
• Repression of flowering by the miR172 target SMZ. 5 Jul 2009
• Effect of root cooling on the tolerance of wheat leaf cells and activity of the photosynthetic apparatus. 29 Jun 2009
• Orthologs of Arabidopsis thaliana stomatal bHLH genes and regulation of stomatal development in grasses. 29 Jun 2009
• Heat stress-induced limitations to reproductive success in Gossypium hirsutum. 24 Jun 2009
• Genetic variation and drought response in two Populus x euramericana genotypes through 2-DE proteomic analysis of leaves from field and glasshouse cultivated plants. 24 Jun 2009
• Mineral nutrient uptake from prey and glandular phosphatase activity as a dual test of carnivory in semi-desert plants with glandular leaves suspected of carnivory. 23 Jun 2009
• Size-dependent mortality in a Neotropical savanna tree: the role of height-related adjustments in hydraulic architecture and carbon allocation. 20 Jun 2009
• Phenotypic selection on leaf ecophysiological traits in Helianthus. 20 Jun 2009
• More productive than maize in the Midwest: How does Miscanthus do it? 15 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Plant Leaves'

Definition: Expanded structures, usually green, of vascular plants, characteristically consisting of a bladelike expansion attached to a stem, and functioning as the principal organ of photosynthesis and transpiration. (American Heritage Dictionary, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D018515

Alternative terms: Plant Leaves; Plant Leaf;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; anatomy & histology; classification; cytology; drug effects; embryology; enzymology; genetics; growth & development; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; physiology; poisoning; radiation effects; toxicity; ultrastructure; chemistry; virology;

Tree Number: B06.413.024.812;

History Note: 95

Technical Notes: part of a plant shoot; IM GEN or unspecified; coord probably IM in genetics & space physiol, NIM in pharmacognosy, with specific plant (IM or NIM)