Giving drought the cold shoulder: A relationship between drought tolerance and fall dormancy in an agriculturally important crop

AoB PLANTS

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pembleton, Keith G ^a   Sathish, Puthigae ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Pastoral Genomics C/o ViaLactia ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; forage legumes; gene expression; lucerne; moisture stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901986936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plu012     Document Type: Article

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