Heritable effect of plant water availability conditions on restoration of male fertility in the '9E' CMS-inducing cytoplasm of sorghum

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Elkonin, L A ^a   Tsvetova, M I ^a  

^a Agricultural Research Institute for Southeastern Regions   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic male sterility; Drought; Epigenetic inheritance; Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880840487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00091     Document Type: Article

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