Asynchronous flowering and within-plant flowering diversity in wheat and the implications for crop resilience to heat

Annals of Botany

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 843-850

  Lukac, Martin ^a   Gooding, Michael J ^a   Griffiths, Simon ^b   Jones, Hannah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; flowering synchrony; heat resistance; pollination; Triticum aestivum; Wheat

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; AUTOGAMY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FLOWERING; GENE FLOW; HARVESTING; HEAT BALANCE; MATURATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLLEN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WHEAT;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; PLANT GENE; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; TIME; WHEAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HOT TEMPERATURE; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRITICUM;

UNITED KINGDOM;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84857744598     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr308     Document Type: Article

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