Manipulating stomatal density enhances drought tolerance without deleterious effect on nutrient uptake

New Phytologist

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 336-341

  Hepworth, Christopher ^a   Doheny Adams, Timothy ^b   Hunt, Lee ^a   Cameron, Duncan D ^a   Gray, Julie E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Drought tolerance; Epidermal patterning factor (EPF); Mass flow; Nitrate; Stomata; Transpiration; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DICOTYLEDON; DROUGHT; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; STOMATA; TRANSPIRATION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

CARBON; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL;

ADAPTATION; ARABIDOPSIS; DROUGHT; HUMIDITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STOMA; SOIL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARABIDOPSIS; CARBON ISOTOPES; DROUGHTS; HUMIDITY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT STOMATA; SOIL;

EID: 84942828754     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13598     Document Type: Article

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