The relationship between flowering time and growth responses to drought in the Arabidopsis Landsberg erecta x Antwerp-1 population

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue November, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Schmalenbach, Inga ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Reymond, Matthieu ^b   Jiménez Gómez, José M ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Epistasis; Flowering time; Growth; Mild drought stress; Natural variation; Water deficit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910154850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00609     Document Type: Article

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