Intraspecific competition reveals conditional fitness effects of single gene polymorphism at the Arabidopsis root growth regulator BRX

New Phytologist

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-80

  Shindo, Chikako ^a   Bernasconi, Giorgina ^a   Hardtke, Christian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Brevis radix; Competition; Density; Environmental stress; Population structure; Replacement series; Root morphology

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BREVIS RADIX PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT ROOT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 51249097474     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02553.x     Document Type: Article

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