Variation in MPK12 affects water use efficiency in Arabidopsis and reveals a pleiotropic link between guard cell size and ABA response

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2836-2841

  Marais, David L Des ^a   Auchincloss, Lisa C ^b   Sukamtoh, Emeline ^a   McKay, John K ^c,d   Logan, Tierney ^a   Richards, James H ^b   Juenger, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; GxE interaction; Natural variation

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; GXE INTERACTION; NATURAL VARIATION;

ABSCISIC ACID; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CAPE VERDE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; GENETIC VARIATION; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT STOMATA; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84894323875     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321429111     Document Type: Article

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