Cultivated crops are generally expected to have less abiotic stress tolerance than their wild relatives. However, this assumption is not well supported by empirical literature and may depend on the type of stress and how it is imposed, as well as the measure of tolerance being used. Here, we investigated whether wild and cultivated accessions of
Flowering time and water‐use efficiency (
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10196852
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Ecology and Evolution
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 23
- ISSN:
- 2045-7758
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Size: p. 4505-4521
- Size(s):
- ["p. 4505-4521"]
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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