Genome-wide expression profiling of maize in response to individual and combined water and nitrogen stresses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Water and nitrogen are two of the most critical inputs required to achieve the high yield potential of modern corn varieties. Under most agricultural settings however they are often scarce and costly. Fortunately, tremendous progress has been made in the past decades in terms of modeling to assist growers in the decision making process and many tools are now available to achieve more sustainable practices both environmentally and economically. Nevertheless large gaps remain between our empirical knowledge of the physiological changes observed in the field in response to nitrogen and water stresses, and our limited understanding of the molecular processes leading to those changes.

Results

This work examines in particular the impact of simultaneous stresses on the t

SUBMITTER: Humbert S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3571967 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature