Water-deficit tolerance and field performance of transgenic alfalfa overexpressing superoxide dismutase

Plant Physiology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1177-1181

  McKersie, Bryan D ^a   Bowley, Stephen R ^a   Harjanto, Erni ^a,b   Leprince, Olivier ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b DIPONEGORO UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0029824775     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.4.1177     Document Type: Article

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