Leaf responses to mild drought stress in natural variants of Arabidopsis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 800-816

  Clauw, Pieter ^a,b   Coppens, Frederik ^a,b   De Beuf, Kristof ^b   Dhondt, Stijn ^a,b   Van Daele, Twiggy ^a,b   Maleux, Katrien ^a,b   Storme, Veronique ^a,b   Clement, Lieven ^b   Gonzalez, Nathalie ^a,b   Inzé, Dirk ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ARABIDOPSIS; CELL WALL; DROUGHT; ECOTYPE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; SEEDLING;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL WALL; DROUGHTS; ECOTYPE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, PLANT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; SEEDLINGS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84923683565     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.254284     Document Type: Article

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