Clinal Variation In Seed Traits Influencing Life Cycle Timing In Arabidopsis Thaliana

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3417-3431

  Montesinos Navarro, Alicia ^a,b   Picó, F Xavier ^b   Tonsor, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

After ripening; Dormancy; Germination timing evolution; Life history; Plasticity; Structural equation models

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FECUNDITY; HERB; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEED; SEED DORMANCY; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; SEASON; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARABIDOPSIS; CLIMATE; GERMINATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEASONS; SEEDS; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84868116645     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01689.x     Document Type: Article

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