Strategies of Phenotypic Plasticity of Germination During Seed Development and Maturation
Phenotypic plasticity of germination is one of the most important components of the complementary sets of survival adaptations and strategies found during the life cycle of many annual plant species occurring in the Negev Desert, as well as in several oth
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Survival Strategies of Annual Desert Plants
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prof. Dr. Yitzchak Gutlerman Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research and Depanment of Life Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Sede Boker Campus 84990 Israel
Cover illustrations: View of the Zin valley in the Zin desert, near the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research at Sede Boker in the Negev Desert highlands of Israel (front cover) . Pteranthus dichotomus Forssk. (Caryophyllaceae), a winter annual on loess soil on the hillslopes of the Zin valley (front and backcover). Photographs taken byYitzchak Gutterman
ISSN 1430-94322 ISBN 978-3-642-62778-1 Library of Congress Cataloging· in · Publi,ation Data. Guttnma n. Y. (Yituhak). 1936· Survival slralegies of annual desert plants I Yituhak Gutttrman. p. (m ... (Adaptations of desert organisms) Indudes bibliographieal referenees (p. ). ISBN 978-3-642-62778-1 ISBN 978-3-642-55974-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-55974-7 1. Oesert plants-- Adaptation.2. Oesert plants--S~ds.3. ~sert plants .. Eoology.4. ~sert plantS--Adaptation-- tsrael-- Negev. 5. ~sert plants .. Jsra.t -- Negev ..Suds. 6. ~sert ptants--Ecotogr--JsraeJ-- Negev. I . Titt •. 11. Serie. QK912 .G62 2002 581.7'54 .. dc2 1
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