Structural and physiological sexual dimorphism estimated from three-dimensional virtual trees of yerba-mate (Ilex paragu...
Yerba-mate is a subtropical, evergreen, dioecious, South American tree. Sexual dimorphism in photosynthesis, leaf allometry and foliage distribution was hypothesised. Virtual trees (constructed in VPlants software from detailed measurements of plant morphogenesis) of the two genders were compared considering two contrasted cultivation environments ...
