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Plant vigour QTLs co-map with an earlier reported QTL hotspot for drought tolerance while water saving QTLs map in other regions of the chickpea genome.
BMC plant biology - 6 Feb 2018
Sivasakthi Kaliamoorthy, Thudi Mahendar, Tharanya Murugesan, Kale Sandip M, Kholová Jana, Halime Mahamat Hissene, Jaganathan Deepa, Baddam Rekha, Thirunalasundari Thiyagarajan, Gaur Pooran M, Varshney Rajeev K, Vadez Vincent
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Terminal drought stress leads to substantial annual yield losses in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Adaptation to water limitation is a matter of matching water supply to water demand by the crop. Therefore, harnessing the genetics of traits contributing to plant water use, i.e. transpiration rate and canopy development dynamics, is important to design crop ideotypes suited to a varying range of water...
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