Does morphological and anatomical plasticity during the vegetative stage make wheat more tolerant of water deficit stress than rice?

Plant Physiology

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1389-1401

  Kadam, Niteen N ^a,b   Yin, Xinyou ^b   Bindraban, Prem S ^c   Struik, Paul C ^b   Jagadish, Krishna S V ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Virtual Fertilizer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORYZA SATIVA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

SOIL; WATER;

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DEHYDRATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; ORYZA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; SOIL; WHEAT; XYLEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DEHYDRATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; ORYZA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL; TRITICUM; WATER; XYLEM;

EID: 84926140685     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.253328     Document Type: Article

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