Genetic variation of transgenerational plasticity of offspring germination in response to salinity stress and the seed transcriptome of Medicago truncatula Speciation and evolutionary genetics

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Vu, Wendy T ^a   Chang, Peter L ^a   Moriuchi, Ken S ^b   Friesen, Maren L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic variation; Germination; Parental environmental effects; Stored seed transcripts; Transgenerational plasticity

Indexed keywords

MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GERMINATION; LEGUME; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RNA; SALINITY; SEED; SURVIVAL;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADAPTATION; BARREL MEDIC; DORMANCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GERMINATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; SALINITY; UPREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GERMINATION; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; PLANT DORMANCY; SALINITY; SEEDS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84928595741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0322-4     Document Type: Article

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