Parental effects modulate seed longevity: Exploring parental and offspring phenotypes to elucidate pre-zygotic environmental influences

New Phytologist

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 223-233

  Kochanek, Jitka ^a   Steadman, Kathryn J ^a   Probert, Robin J ^b   Adkins, Steve W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Maternal; Parental environment; Paternal; Plantago cunninghamii; Pre zygotic; Seed ageing; Seed longevity; Transgenerational

Indexed keywords

AGING; CULTIVAR; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FLOWERING; GERMPLASM; HERB; HERITABILITY; LONGEVITY; MATURATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEED PRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PLANTAGO; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION; SOIL;

ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PLANTAGO; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS; SOIL;

EMBRYOPHYTA; PLANTAGO;

EID: 79957908549     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03681.x     Document Type: Article

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