Responses of temperate plants to drought conditions

 

Introduction
Background

Effects on:

     photosynthesis

     growth and allocation
Mitigating factors?
References

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heather McCarthy
hrm@duke.edu
Duke University
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Box 90328
Durham, NC  27707
(919) 613-8050
 

Table 3. Generalized sensitivity to water stress of plant processes or parameters. Length of the horizontal line
represents the range of stress levels within which a process first becomes affected. Dashed lines signify
deductions based on more tenuous data. Redone from Hsiao 1973.