Stay-green alleles individually enhance grain yield in sorghum under drought by modifying canopy development and water uptake patterns

New Phytologist

Volumn 203, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 817-830

  Borrell, Andrew K ^a   van Oosterom, Erik J ^a   Mullet, John E ^b   George Jaeggli, Barbara ^c   Jordan, David R ^a   Klein, Patricia E ^b   Hammer, Graeme L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Hermitage Research Station   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canopy development; Drought adaptation; Grain yield; Quantitative trait loci (QTLs); Sorghum; Stay green; Water uptake

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; BIOMASS; CANOPY; CROP YIELD; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SORGHUM; TRANSPIRATION; WATER UPTAKE;

SORGHUM BICOLOR;

WATER;

ALLELE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CROP; CROSS BREEDING; DROUGHT; FLOWER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INBREEDING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SORGHUM;

ALLELES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROUGHTS; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC LINKAGE; INBREEDING; PLANT LEAVES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEEDS; SORGHUM; WATER;

EID: 84904044783     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12869     Document Type: Article

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