Plant Respiration
Subtitle: From Cell to Ecosystem (Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration)
Contributors: Hans Lambers (Editor); Miquel Ribas-Carbo (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 22, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781402035883
Subjects: Biochemistry; Technology; Plants - General; Science; Science/Mathematics; Agriculture - General; Life Sciences - Botany; Ecology; Nature-Plants - General; Science / Botany; Technology-Agriculture - General; Plantes; Plants; Respiration; metabolism
First sentence: A large fraction (0.25-0.70) of all the carbohydrates that a higher plant assimilates each day are expended in respiration in the same period (Van der Werf et al., 1992; Lambers et al., 1998a).