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Arabidopsis
Boechera
Drought tolerance
Local adaptation
Transcription profiling
Soil electrical-conductivity
Plant physiological traits
Arabidopsis-thaliana
Differing selection
Arabis-drummondii
Encelia-farinosa
Gene-expression
Drought
Brassicaceae
Evolution
Environment/Ecology in Current Contents(R)/Agricultural, Biology & Environmental Sciences Molecular Biology & Genetics in Current Contents(R)/Life Sciences
Abstract:
We studied the physiological basis of local adaptation to drought in Boechera holboellii, a perennial relative of Arabidopsis thaliana, and used cDNA-AFLPs to identify candidate genes showing differential expression in these populations. We compared two