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Genome-Wide Association Study Pinpoints Novel Genes Regulating Seedling Root Growth Variation of Arabidopsis thaliana Under Drought.
Plant, cell & environment - 1 May 2026
Marik Debankona, Tajane Surbhi Vilas, Kumar Rishabh, Dey Sucharita, Sadhukhan Ayan
Abstract excerpt
Developing drought-resilient crops requires a precise understanding of molecular signalling in the root, the primary organ encountering drought. This study unravelled novel genetic loci regulating drought tolerance by exploiting the natural variation in seedling root growth of Arabidopsis thaliana under PEG-induced drought stress. Through a genome-wide association study of 207 worldwide A. thaliana ecotypes from...
Topics
- Arabidopsis
- Plant Roots
- Seedlings
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Drought Resistance
- Droughts
- Stress, Physiological
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Arabidopsis Proteins
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
