Seasonal and plant-density dependency for quantitative trait loci affecting flowering time in multiple populations of Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1465-1479

  Botto, Javier F ^a   Coluccio, María Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

QTL; RIL populations; Seasonal environments

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FLOWERING; LIGHT QUALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FLOWER; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEASON; TIME;

ARABIDOPSIS; FLOWERS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 34848907244     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2007.01722.x     Document Type: Article

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