Habitat-specific natural selection at a flowering-time QTL is a main driver of local adaptation in two wild barley populations

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3416-3424

  Verhoeven, K J F ^a   Poorter, H ^b   Nevo, E ^c   Biere, A ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antagonistic pleiotropy; Flowering time; Local adaptation; QTL analysis; Reciprocal transplant; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BARLEY; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TIME;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HORDEUM; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEEDS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. SPONTANEUM;

EID: 47749109415     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03847.x     Document Type: Article

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