Heritability of growth and leaf loss compensation in a long-lived tropical understorey palm.

<h4>Introduction</h4>Defoliation and light competition are ubiquitous stressors that can strongly limit plant performance. Tolerance to defoliation is often associated with compensatory growth, which could be positively or negatively related to plant growth. Genetic variation in growth,...

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Main Authors: Merel Jansen, Pieter A Zuidema, Aad van Ast, Frans Bongers, Marcos Malosetti, Miguel Martínez-Ramos, Juan Núñez-Farfán, Niels P R Anten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209631