sensitive species
Overview page. Subjects: Environmental Science.
Plant or animal species which are susceptible to changes in habitat or to impacts from human activities.
Cold-Tolerant Crop Species Have Greater Temperature Homeostasis of Leaf Respiration and Photosynthesis Than Cold-Sensitive Species
in Plant and Cell Physiology
February 2009; p ublished online December 2008 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Biochemistry; Molecular and Cell Biology; Plant Sciences and Forestry. 7396 words.
Some plant species show constant rates of respiration and photosynthesis measured at their respective growth temperatures (temperature homeostasis), whereas others do not. However, it is...
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Early Zn2+-induced effects on membrane potential account for primary heavy metal susceptibility in tolerant and sensitive Arabidopsis species
in Annals of Botany
July 2012; p ublished online May 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Ecology and Conservation; Evolutionary Biology; Plant Sciences and Forestry. 9550 words.
Background and Aims
Uptake of heavy metals by plant root cells depends on electro-physiological parameters of the plasma membrane. In this study, responses...
Comparative Transcriptomic Profiling of a Salt-Tolerant Wild Tomato Species and a Salt-Sensitive Tomato Cultivar
in Plant and Cell Physiology
June 2010; p ublished online April 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Biochemistry; Molecular and Cell Biology; Plant Sciences and Forestry. 6280 words.
Wild halophytic tomato has long been considered as an ideal gene donor for improving salt tolerance in tomato cultivars. Extensive research has been focused on physiological and...
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Ozone air pollution effects on tree-ring growth, δ13C, visible foliar injury and leaf gas exchange in three ozone-sensitive woody plant species
in Tree Physiology
July 2007; p ublished online July 2007 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry. 0 words.
We assessed the effects of ambient tropospheric ozone on annual tree-ring growth, δ13C in the rings, leaf gas exchange and visible injury in three ozone-sensitive woody plant species in...
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Antioxidant responses of hyper-accumulator and sensitive fern species to arsenic
in Journal of Experimental Botany
May 2005; p ublished online March 2005 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry. 5544 words.
Plant species capable of hyper-accumulating heavy metals are of considerable interest for phytoremediation, and differ in their ability to accumulate metals from the environment. This work...
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Leaf gas exchange and growth of flood-tolerant and flood-sensitive tree species under low soil redox conditions
in Tree Physiology
April 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry. 0 words.
Seedlings of Taxodium distichum L., Quercus lyrata Walt. and Q. falcata var. pagodaefolia Ell. were grown for 22 days in a rhizotron system providing two soil redox potential regimes, +170...
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A Rapid and Sensitive Method for Determination of Relative Specificity of RuBisCO from Various Species by Anion-Exchange Chromatography
in Plant and Cell Physiology
April 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Biochemistry; Molecular and Cell Biology; Plant Sciences and Forestry. 0 words.
A rapid and sensitive method to determine the relative specificity (τ) of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) using anion-exchange chromatography is described. We...
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Aeschynomene
in A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
January 2006; p ublished online January 2006 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry. 31 words.
(family Fabaceae, subfamily Papilionatae)
A genus of 150 species of tropical and subtropical shrubs with sensitive leaves. The
Aeschynomene
in A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
January 2012; p ublished online April 2013 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry. 32 words.
A genus of 150 species of tropical and subtropical shrubs with sensitive leaves. The wood of A. indica (shola) was traditionally used to make pith helmets....
Aeschynomene
Overview page. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry.
(family Fabaceae, subfamily Papilionatae)
A genus of 150 species of tropical and subtropical shrubs with sensitive leaves. The wood of A. indica (shola) was traditionally used to...
Usnea
Overview page. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry.
(order Lecanorales)
A genus of fruticose lichens, commonly known as beard lichens owing to their tufted, filamentous appearance and frequently pendulous habit. The numerous species...
Plasma Membrane Permeability of Root-Tip Cells Following Temporary Exposure to Al Ions Is a Rapid Measure of Al Tolerance among Plant Species
in Plant and Cell Physiology
May 1998; p ublished online May 1998 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry; Biochemistry; Molecular and Cell Biology. 0 words.
No correlations were recognized between Al tolerance among four plant species, rice (Oryza sativa L.), maize (Zea mays L.), pea (Pisum sativum L.), and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), in rank...
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mimosa
Overview page. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry.
(family Fabaceae, subfamily Mimosoideae)
A genus mainly of herbs and shrubs, in which the stipules are sometimes thorn-like. The leaves are multipinnate. M. pudica (the sensitive...
fuchsia
Overview page. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry.
(family Onagraceae)
A genus of shrubs or small trees that have showy, drooping flowers, each with 4, usually spreading, red sepals and 4, usually erect, petals. They are much...
Seasonal patterns of leaf gas exchange and water relations in dry rain forest trees of contrasting leaf phenology
in Tree Physiology
May 2006; p ublished online May 2006 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry. 0 words.
Diurnal and seasonal patterns of leaf gas exchange and water relations were examined in tree species of contrasting leaf phenology growing in a seasonally dry tropical rain forest in...
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Analysis of pcC13-62 promoters predicts a link between cis-element variations and desiccation tolerance in Linderniaceae
in Journal of Experimental Botany
June 2018; p ublished online May 2018 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry. 7495 words.
Abstract
Reproductive structures of plants (e.g. seeds) and vegetative tissues of resurrection plants can tolerate desiccation. Many genes encoding...
Phosphorus responses of C3 and C4 species
in Journal of Experimental Botany
April 1996; p ublished online April 1996 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry. 0 words.
An hypothesis was formulated that phosphorus (P) partitioning in tissues of C4 leaves would permit C4 plants to resist P deficiency better than C3 plants. To test this hypothesis, 12 C3, C4null...
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Element accumulation patterns of deciduous and evergreen tree seedlings on acid soils: implications for sensitivity to manganese toxicity
in Tree Physiology
January 2005; p ublished online January 2005 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry. 0 words.
Foliar nutrient imbalances, including the hyperaccumulation of manganese (Mn), are correlated with symptoms of declining health in sensitive tree species growing on acidic forest soils. The...
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Comparative cDNA-AFLP analysis of Cd-tolerant and -sensitive genotypes derived from crosses between the Cd hyperaccumulator Arabidopsis halleri and Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. petraea
in Journal of Experimental Botany
September 2006; p ublished online August 2006 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry. 8613 words.
Cadmium (Cd) tolerance seems to be a constitutive species-level trait in Arabidopsis halleri. In order to identify genes potentially implicated in Cd tolerance, a backcross (BC1)...
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Species assemblage patterns around a dominant emergent tree are associated with drought resistance
in Tree Physiology
December 2013; p ublished online December 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Plant Sciences and Forestry. 7748 words.
Water availability has long been recognized as an important driver of species distribution patterns in forests. The conifer Agathis australis (D. Don) Lindl. (kauri; Araucariaceae) grows in...
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