TY - JOUR
AU - Konis, E.
AB - THE RESISTANCE OF MAQUIS PLANTS TO SUPRAMAXIMAL TEMPERATURES E. KoNIS Deportment of Botany, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel In our studies on the temperatures of either killing the plants or inflicting seri­ plants in Palestine (Konis, in press) we ous damage upon them. have observed that the temperatures of METHOD maquis plants may reach very high max­ ima, as may be seen from table I (left The method used was a modification column). It is the consensus of opinion of the techniques of Clum ('27), and among plant physiologists that the upper Rouschal ('38). An undetached branch thermal limit of active plant cells lies in of the plant under consideration was in­ the region of 4S to SS °C (Sachs, 1864; troduced into a bottle coated with lamp­ Sapper, 193S). Since the leaves of ma­ black, whose volume depended on the quis plants in nature reach maximal tem­ size of the leaves being examined. We peratures within this critical range (ta­ used bottles ranging in volume from 0.2S ble I) , we were led to suspect that these to 1.S liters. The bottle is loosely plugged temperatures may endanger their lives. with a halved cork provided with two We therefore 
TI - The Resistance of Maquis Plants to Supramaximal Temperatures
JF - Ecology
DO - 10.2307/1932445
DA - 1949-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-resistance-of-maquis-plants-to-supramaximal-temperatures-HZJ6VYc0o8
SP - 425
EP - 429
VL - 30
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -