Adaptive transgenerational plasticity in an annual plant: Grandparental and parental drought stress enhance performance of seedlings in dry soil

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-88

  Herman, Jacob J ^a   Sultan, Sonia E ^a   Horgan Kobelski, Tim ^a   Riggs, Charlotte ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DROUGHT; GENETICS; GERMINATION; INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; POLYGONUM; SEEDLING; SOIL; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DROUGHTS; GERMINATION; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ROOTS; POLYGONUM; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SOIL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

POLYGONUM; POLYGONUM PERSICARIA;

EID: 84863452895     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/ics041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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