Gibberellin deficiency confers both lodging and drought tolerance in small cereals

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue MAY2016, 2016, Pages

  Plaza Wüthrich, Sonia ^a   Blösch, Regula ^a   Rindisbacher, Abiel ^a   Cannarozzi, Gina ^a   Tadele, Zerihun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Drought tolerance; Eragrostis tef; Finger millet; GA inhibitor; Lodging tolerance; Paclobutrazol (PBZ); Rice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969514199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00643     Document Type: Article

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