High-throughput non-destructive phenotyping of traits that contribute to salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue September2016, 2016, Pages

  Awlia, Mariam ^a   Nigro, Arianna ^b   Fajkus, Jiří ^c   Schmoeckel, Sandra M ^a   Negrão, Sónia ^a   Santelia, Diana ^b   Trtílek, Martin ^c   Tester, Mark ^a   Julkowska, Magdalena M ^a   Panzarová, Klára ^c  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c PSI (Photon Systems Instruments)   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Color segmentation; High throughput phenotyping; Kinetic chlorophyll fluorescence imaging; Salinity tolerance; Salt stress; Shoot ion independent tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989930263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01414     Document Type: Article

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