Genotypic variation in traits linked to climate and aboveground productivity in a widespread C4 grass: Evidence for a functional trait syndrome

New Phytologist

Volumn 199, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 966-980

  Aspinwall, Michael J ^a,b   Lowry, David B ^a   Taylor, Samuel H ^a,c   Juenger, Thomas E ^a   Hawkes, Christine V ^a   Johnson, Mari Vaughn V ^d   Kiniry, James R ^d   Fay, Philip A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

C4; Climate change; Evolution; Genecology; Panicum virgatum (switchgrass); Physiology; Polyploidy

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; C4 PLANT; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIVERGENCE; FLOWERING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GRASS; HERITABILITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYPLOIDY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

CARBON;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; GENECOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INHERITANCE; METABOLISM; PANICUM; PANICUM VIRGATUM (SWITCHGRASS); PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLOIDY; POLYPLOIDY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEASON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; GENECOLOGY; PANICUM VIRGATUM (SWITCHGRASS); PHYSIOLOGY; POLYPLOIDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARBON; CLIMATE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; PANICUM; PLANT LEAVES; PLOIDIES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEASONS;

EID: 84881255123     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12341     Document Type: Article

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