New molecular approaches to improving salt tolerance in crop plants

Annals of Botany

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 703-710

  Winicov, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular selection; Gene regulation; Molecular engineering; Salt stress; Salt tolerance; Transcription factors; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; CROP IMPROVEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLANT METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SALT TOLERANCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032438611     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbo.1998.0731     Document Type: Article

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