Drought, metabolites, and Arabidopsis natural variation: A promising combination for understanding adaptation to water-limited environments

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 240-245

  Verslues, Paul E ^a   Juenger, Thomas E ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLINE; WATER;

ADAPTATION; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARABIDOPSIS; DROUGHTS; ENVIRONMENT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PROLINE; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 79957729503     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2011.04.006     Document Type: Review

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