Accelerated flowering time reduces lifetime water use without penalizing reproductive performance in Arabidopsis.

Based on these relationships, we developed the proxy parameter “calculated life time (plant) water‐use (cPWU),” as a product of VWU and flowering time: VWU x days to flowering = cPWU see Table 1 The continuous moderate drought experiment allowed us to directly relate mPWU with cPWU, which showed a highly significant positive correlation within the experiment (Figure 2 c).

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