Genetic variation in ZmVPP1 contributes to drought tolerance in maize seedlings

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1233-1241

  Wang, Xianglan ^a,b   Wang, Hongwei ^a,b   Liu, Shengxue ^a   Ferjani, Ali ^c   Li, Jiansheng ^d   Yan, Jianbing ^e   Yang, Xiaohong ^d   Qin, Feng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT STRESS; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; INBRED STRAIN; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; ROOT DEVELOPMENT; SEEDLING; WATER DEFICIT; ZMVPP1 GENE; ADAPTATION; DROUGHT; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; DROUGHTS; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PYROPHOSPHATASES; SEEDLINGS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84982179136     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3636     Document Type: Article

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