Exploiting differential gene expression and epistasis to discover candidate genes for drought-associated QTLs in Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Cell

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 969-983

  Lovell, John T ^a,b   Mullen, Jack L ^b   Lowry, David B ^c   Awole, Kedija ^b   Richards, James H ^d   Sen, Saunak ^e   Verslues, Paul E ^f   Juenger, Thomas E ^a   McKay, John K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; DROUGHT; EPISTASIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DROUGHTS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84928942213     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.15.00122     Document Type: Article

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