Wild and Cultivated Sunflower (<i>Helianthus annuus</i> L.) Do Not Differ in Salinity Tolerance When Taking Vigor into Account
Cultivated crops are expected to be less stress tolerant than their wild relatives, leading to efforts to mine wild relatives for traits to increase crop tolerance. However, empirical tests of this expectation often confound tolerance with plant vigor. We assessed whether wild and cultivated <i&g...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-07-01
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Series: | Agronomy |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/7/1013 |