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A Telemetric, Gravimetric Platform for Real-Time Physiological Phenotyping of Plant–Environment Interactions
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Plant science. Phenology under global warming
Christian Körner1, David Basler
1Institute of Botany, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland. ch.koerner@unibas.ch
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 20, 2010
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