Genetic analysis of tolerance to Boron toxicity in the legume Medicago truncatula

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bogacki, Paul ^a   Peck, David M ^a   Nair, Ramakrishnan M ^a,c   Howie, Jake ^a   Oldach, Klaus H ^a,b  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c AVRDC THE WORLD VEGETABLE CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Boron toxicity tolerance; Differential expression; Gene cluster; Genetic analysis; Legume; Medicago truncatula; MtNIP3

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

BORON; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT;

BORON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC LINKAGE; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS;

EID: 84875283101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-54     Document Type: Article

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