Performance of wheat crops with different chromosome ploidy: Root-sourced signals, drought tolerance, and yield performance

Planta

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 710-718

  Xiong, You Cai ^a,b   Li, Feng Min ^a,b   Zhang, Ting ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drought tolerance; Grain yield; Non hydraulic root signal; Spring wheat; Stomatal conductance; Threshold range; Wild wheat relatives

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROP; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLOIDY; SOIL; WHEAT;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLOIDIES; SOIL; TRITICUM; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM MONOCOCCUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DICOCCUM;

EID: 33746929873     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-006-0252-x     Document Type: Article

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