Mapping salinity tolerance during Arabidopsis thaliana germination and seedling growth

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  DeRose Wilson, Leah ^a,b   Gaut, Brandon S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GROWTH; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SALINITY; SALT TOLERANCE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS BREEDING; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HALOPHYTE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GERMINATION; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SALINITY; SALT-TOLERANCE; SALT-TOLERANT PLANTS; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80051640814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022832     Document Type: Article

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