Metabolic and phenotypic responses of greenhouse-grown maize hybrids to experimentally controlled drought stress

Molecular Plant

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 401-417

  Witt, Sandra ^a   Galicia, Luis ^b   Lisec, Jan ^a   Cairns, Jill ^c   Tiessen, Axel ^d   Araus, Jose Luis ^e   Palacios Rojas, Natalia ^b   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^c CIMMYT   (Zimbabwe)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

carbon metabolism; metabolomics; water relations

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84856783412     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssr102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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