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SUBMITTER: Pimienta-Barrios E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4243655 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Annals of botany 20030618 2
The effects of drought and the fungicide benomyl on a wild platyopuntia, Opuntia robusta Wendl., growing in a rocky semi-arid environment were assessed. Cladode phosphorus content, cladode water potential and daily net CO2 uptake were measured monthly in 2000 and 2001 before, during and after the summer rainy period. During 2000, the formation of new roots and new cladodes was severely suppressed in response to a prolonged drought, impairing the development of the symbiotic relationship between ...[more]