Water deficits in wheat: Fructan exohydrolase (1-FEH) mRNA expression and relationship to soluble carbohydrate concentrations in two varieties

New Phytologist

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 843-850

  Zhang, Jingjuan ^a   Dell, Bernard ^a   Conocono, Elisabeth ^b   Waters, Irene ^b   Setter, Tim ^b   Appels, Rudi ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bread wheat; Fructan 1 exohydrolase (1 FEH); Grain yield; Green leaf retention; Terminal water deficit; Water soluble carbohydrate (WSC)

Indexed keywords

FRUCTAN BETA FRUCTOSIDASE; FRUCTAN BETA-FRUCTOSIDASE; GLYCOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WATER;

CARBOHYDRATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP PRODUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; RESILIENCE; RNA; WATER STRESS; WHEAT;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DROUGHT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT STEM; SOLUBILITY; WHEAT;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DROUGHTS; GENOTYPE; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STEMS; RNA, MESSENGER; SOLUBILITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRITICUM; WATER;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 59849119667     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02713.x     Document Type: Article

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