Genetics of local adaptation in the laboratory: Flowering time quantitative trait loci under geographic and seasonal conditions in Arabidopsis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Li, Yan ^a   Roycewicz, Peter ^a   Smith, Evadne ^a   Borevitz, Justin O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY LENGTH; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLOWERING; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMIDITY; LIGHT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RECOMBINANT INBRED STRAIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPAIN; SPRING; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE; ADAPTATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; SEASON;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; FLM PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; FRI PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ECOSYSTEM; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEASONS; SPAIN; SWEDEN;

EID: 34547177063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000105     Document Type: Article

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