Constraints on the evolution of adaptive plasticity: Costs of plasticity to density are expressed in segregating progenies

New Phytologist

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 874-882

  Dechaine, Jennifer M ^a   Johnston, Jill A ^a   Brock, Marcus T ^a   Weinig, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brassica rapa (wild turnip); Competition; Costs of plasticity; Phenotypic plasticity; Recombinant inbred lines

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CULTIVAR; DICOTYLEDON; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELDWORK; GENOTYPE; HETEROGENEITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SELECTION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME; TURNIP;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BRASSICA RAPA; EVOLUTION; FLOWERS; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. RAPA;

EID: 36048944707     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02210.x     Document Type: Article

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