Genetic determinism of anatomical and hydraulic traits within an apple progeny

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1276-1290

  Lauri, Pierre Éric ^a   Gorza, Olivier ^a   Cochard, Hervé ^b   Martinez, Sébastien ^a   Celton, Jean Marc ^a   Ripetti, Véronique ^a   Lartaud, Marc ^a   Bry, Xavier ^c   Trottier, Catherine ^c   Costes, Evelyne ^a  

^a UMR AGAP   (France)

^b PIAF   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Heritability; Hydraulic conductivity; Malus domestica; Pith area; QTL; Wood area; Xylem efficiency; Xylem safety; Xylem vessel

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANATOMY; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CULTIVAR; DECIDUOUS TREE; EVAPORATION; FRUIT; FRUIT PRODUCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HERITABILITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STEM; TRADE-OFF; XYLEM;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; MALUS; PLANT GENOME; PLANT STEM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TREE; XYLEM;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; GENOME, PLANT; GENOTYPE; MALUS; PLANT STEMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TREES; WATER; XYLEM;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 79960215995     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02328.x     Document Type: Article

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