Analysis of natural allelic variation controlling Arabidopsis thaliana seed germinability in response to cold and dark: Identification of three major quantitative trait loci

Molecular Plant

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 145-154

  Meng, Ping Hong ^a,b   MacQuet, Audrey ^a   Loudet, Olivier ^a   Marion Poll, Annie ^a   North, Helen M ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

^b Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COLD; DARKNESS; FRANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GERMINATION; HOMOZYGOTE; LIGHT; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; COLD TEMPERATURE; DARKNESS; FRANCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; GERMINATION; HOMOZYGOTE; LIGHT; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 52449104313     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssm014     Document Type: Article

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