Factors preventing the performance of oxygen isotope ratios as indicators of grain yield in maize

Planta

Volumn 243, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 355-368

  Sánchez Bragado, Rut ^a   Araus, José Luis ^a   Scheerer, Ursula ^b   Cairns, Jill E ^c   Rennenberg, Heinz ^b   Ferrio, Juan Pedro ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c CIMMYT   (Zimbabwe)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corn; Drought tolerance; Grain; Leaf; Organic matter; Stable isotopes; Stem water; Translocational

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STOMA;

DROUGHTS; GENOTYPE; OXYGEN; PLANT STOMATA; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84955381881     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-015-2411-4     Document Type: Article

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