Drought priming at vegetative growth stages improves tolerance to drought and heat stresses occurring during grain filling in spring wheat

Plant Growth Regulation

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 677-687

  Wang, Xiao ^a,b,d   Vignjevic, Marija ^b   Liu, Fulai ^c   Jacobsen, Susanne ^d   Jiang, Dong ^a   Wollenweber, Bernd ^b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; Carboxylation efficiency; Cross tolerance; Drought priming; Wheat

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 85027929925     PISSN: 01676903     EISSN: 15735087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10725-014-9969-x     Document Type: Article

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