Quantifying relationships between rooting traits and water uptake under drought in Mediterranean barley and durum wheat

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 455-469

  Carvalho, Pedro ^a   Azam Ali, Sayed ^b   Foulkes, M John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Barley; Mediterranean; Root architecture; Root length density; Root traits; Root volume density; Water; Wheat

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; CULTIVAR; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; PHENOTYPE; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; ROOT SYSTEM; ROOTING; WATER UPTAKE; WHEAT; YIELD RESPONSE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM MARINUM GUSSONIANUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

WATER;

DROUGHT; HORDEUM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WHEAT;

DROUGHTS; HORDEUM; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PLANT ROOTS; TRITICUM; WATER;

EID: 84900012883     PISSN: 16729072     EISSN: 17447909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jipb.12109     Document Type: Article

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