Is sexual reproduction of high-mountain plants endangered by heat?

Strong solar irradiation in combination with still air and dry soil can cause prostrate high-mountain plants to heat up considerably and ultimately suffer heat damage. Such heat damage has been repeatedly shown for vegetative structures, but not for reproductive structures, which we expected to be p...

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Main Authors: Ladinig, Ursula, Pramsohler, Manuel, Bauer, Ines, Zimmermann, Sonja, Neuner, Gilbert, Wagner, Johanna
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363489/