Assessment of drought tolerance of 49 switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) genotypes using physiological and morphological parameters

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Liu, Yiming ^a   Zhang, Xunzhong ^a   Tran, Hong ^a   Shan, Liang ^a   Kim, Jeongwoon ^b   Childs, Kevin ^b   Ervin, Erik H ^a   Frazier, Taylor ^a   Zhao, Bingyu ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought tolerance; Genetic diversity; Germplasm; Metabolites; Panicum virgatum; PCA; SRAP marker

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; METABOLITES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

DROUGHT TOLERANCES; GENETIC DIVERSITY; GERMPLASMS; PANICUM VIRGATUM; PCA; SRAP MARKERS;

DROUGHT;

C4 PLANT; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GERMPLASM; GRASS; METABOLITE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 84959537831     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-015-0342-8     Document Type: Article

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