Osmotic adjustment of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is not associated with changes in carbohydrate composition or leaf gas exchange under drought

Annals of Applied Biology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-225

  Basu, P S ^a   Berger, J D ^b,c   Turner, N C ^b   Chaturvedi, S K ^a   Ali, M ^a   Siddique, K H M ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PULSES RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advanced breeding inbred lines; Hexoses; Leaf water potential; Photosynthesis; Relative water content; Starch concentration; Sucrose; Sucrose phosphate synthase; Total soluble sugars; Transpiration

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CARBOHYDRATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CULTIVAR; DROUGHT STRESS; GAS EXCHANGE; LEAF; LEGUME; OSMOSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STARCH; TRANSPIRATION;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

CICER ARIETINUM;

EID: 34247367552     PISSN: 00034746     EISSN: 17447348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7348.2007.00119.x     Document Type: Article

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