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Identification of drought tolerance markers in a diverse population of rice cultivars by expression and metabolite profiling.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Degenkolbe Thomas, Do Phuc T, Kopka Joachim, Zuther Ellen, Hincha Dirk K, Köhl Karin I
Abstract excerpt
Rice provides about half of the calories consumed in Asian countries, but its productivity is often reduced by drought, especially when grown under rain-fed conditions. Cultivars with increased drought tolerance have been bred over centuries. Slow selection for drought tolerance on the basis of phenotypic traits may be accelerated by using molecular markers identified through expression and metabolic profiling....
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