Open All Night Long: the dark side of stomatal control

J Miguel Costa1, Fabien Monnet1, Dorothée Jannaud1

  • 1Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (J.M.C., F.M., D.J., N.L., B.K., I.M.R., F.P., B.G.),Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7265 (J.M.C., F.M., D.J., N.L., B.K., I.M.R., F.P., B.G.), andUniversité Aix-Marseille (J.M.C., F.M., D.J., N.L., B.K., I.M.R., F.P., B.G.), Biologie Végétale et Microbiologie Environnementales, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France;Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, 84000 Avignon, France (F.M.); andCentro de Botânica Aplicada à Agricultura, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal (J.M.C.).

Plant Physiology
|December 21, 2014
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