Using QTL mapping to investigate the relationships between abiotic stress tolerance (drought and salinity) and agronomic and physiological traits

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Fan, Yun ^a   Shabala, Sergey ^a   Ma, Yanling ^a   Xu, Rugen ^b   Zhou, Meixue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drought tolerance; Leaf wilting; Proline content; QTL analysis; Salinity tolerance

Indexed keywords

PROLINE;

ABIOTIC STRESS; AGRONOMIC TRAIT; ARTICLE; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GERMINATION; HAPLOIDY; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION SIZE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SALINITY; SALT TOLERANCE; WATER CONTENT; WILTING; ADAPTATION; BREEDING; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; DROUGHT; GENETICS; HORDEUM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

HORDEUM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROUGHTS; HORDEUM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SALINITY; SALT-TOLERANCE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84924600229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1243-8     Document Type: Article

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