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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2014

The relationship between flowering time and growth responses to drought in the Arabidopsis Landsberg erecta x Antwerp-1 population.

Inga Schmalenbach, Lei Zhang, Matthieu Reymond, José M Jiménez-Gómez

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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Inga SchmalenbachDepartment of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne, Germany.
Lei ZhangDepartment of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne, Germany.
Matthieu ReymondInstitut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Versailles, France.
José M Jiménez-GómezDepartment of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne, Germany ; Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Versailles, France.

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Abstract

Limited water availability is one of the most prominent abiotic constraints to plant survival and reproduction. Thus, plants have evolved different strategies to cope with water deficit, including modification of their growth and timing of developmental events such as flowering. In this work, we explore the link between flowering time and growth responses to moderate drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana using natural variation for these traits found in the Landsberg erecta x Antwerp-1 recombinant inbred line population. We developed and phenotyped near isogenic lines containing different allelic combinations at three interacting quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting both flowering time and growth in response to water deficit. We used these lines to confirm additive and epistatic effects of the three QTL and observed a strong association between late flowering and reduced sensitivity to drought. Analyses of growth responses to drought over time revealed that late flowering plants were able to recover their growth in the second half of their vegetative development. In contrast, early flowering, a common drought escape strategy that ensures plant survival under severe water deficit, was associated with strongly impaired plant fitness. The results presented here indicate that late flowering may be advantageous under continuous mild water deficit as it allows stress acclimatization over time.

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Arabidopsis thalianaepistasisflowering timegrowthmild drought stressnatural variationwater deficit

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