Natural genetic variation in arabidopsis thaliana defense metabolism genes modulates field fitness

eLife

Volumn 2015, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1-28

  Kerwin, Rachel ^a   Feusier, Julie ^a,b   Corwin, Jason ^a   Rubin, Matthew ^c   Lin, Catherine ^a   Muok, Alise ^a,d   Larson, Brandon ^a,d,e   Li, Baohua ^a   Joseph, Bindu ^a   Francisco, Marta ^a,f   Copeland, Daniel ^a   Weinig, Cynthia ^b   Kliebenstein, Daniel J ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^e Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^f MISIÓN BIOLÓGICA DE GALICIA CSIC   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSINOLATE;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; FIELD STUDY; FITNESS; FLOWERING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLUCOSINOLATE GENE; HAPLOTYPE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEAF DAMAGE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLEIOTROPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SURVIVOR;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84928153794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.05604.001     Document Type: Article

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