Metabolite profiles of maize leaves in drought, heat, and combined stress field trials reveal the relationship between metabolism and grain yield

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2665-2683

  Obata, Toshihiro ^a   Witt, Sandra ^a   Lisec, Jan ^a   Palacios Rojas, Natalia ^b   Florez Sarasa, Igor ^a   Yousfi, Salima ^c   Araus, Jose Luis ^c   Cairns, Jill E ^d   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; DROUGHT; FOOD GRAIN; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEAT; HYBRIDIZATION; MAIZE; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT LEAF; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMASS; DROUGHTS; EDIBLE GRAIN; GENOTYPE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PLANT LEAVES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84949580156     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.01164     Document Type: Article

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