Breeding for salt tolerance in crop plants - The role of molecular biology

Acta Physiologiae Plantarum

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 427-433

  Flowers, Timothy John ^a   Garcia, Aurora ^a   Koyama, Mikiko ^a   Yeo, Anthony Richard ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Halophytes; Molecular biology; Molecular genetics; Plant breeding; Rice; Salinity; Salt tolerance; Salt affected soils; Sodicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031406369     PISSN: 01375881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11738-997-0039-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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