Woody Plant Architecture and Its Research in Plant Ecology

Abstract

Abstract: Major contents of plant architecture and branching patterns within the crown are reviewed in this paper.Plant architecture is the basis for understanding of species morphological diversity.Major researches on branching patterns include not only development and growth of shoot and bifurcation density,but also the relationships between them and genetical mechanism,meristems and environmental change.To study the distribution of different modules at the level of shoot and their integration has become a new trend for revealing adaptive strategy of plant architecture at different habitats.

Key words: shifting sand burial, soil evaporation, salt accumulation, water and salt distribution, saline water drip-irrigation, Taklimakan Desert.

CLC Number:

Q948.1

Chen Bo, Song Yongchang, Da Liangjun. Woody Plant Architecture and Its Research in Plant Ecology[J]. cje, 2002, (3): 52-56,28.

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