Grass leaf silicification: Natural selection for an inducible defense against herbivores.

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• Publication year

  1983

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  1983-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1073/PNAS.80.3.790PMID 16578767PMCID PMC393465
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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