The Interaction of Genotype and Environment Determines Variation in the Maize Kernel Ionome.

ABSTRACT: Plants obtain soil-resident elements that support growth and metabolism from the water-flow facilitated by transpiration and active transport processes. The availability of elements in the environment interacts with the genetic capacity of organisms to modulate element uptake through plastic adaptive responses, such as homeostasis. These interactions should cause the elemental contents of plants to vary such that the effects of genetic polymorphisms will be dramatically dependent on the environment in which the plant is grown. To investigate genotype by environment interactions underlying elemental accumulation, we analyzed levels of elements in maize kernels of the Intermated B73 × Mo17 (IBM) recombinant inbred population grown in 10 different environments, spanning a total of six locatio

SUBMITTER: Asaro A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5144985 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature