Molecular cloning of a Brassica napus cysteine protease gene inducible by drought and low temperature stress

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 389-397

  Stroeher, Virginia L ^a   Maclagan, James L ^a   Good, Allen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brassica napus; Cysteine protease; Drought; Stress

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA NAPUS;

EID: 0030864695     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.1010220.x     Document Type: Article

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