Betaines and related osmoprotectants. Targets for metabolic engineering of stress resistance

Plant Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 945-949

  McNeil, Scott D ^a   Nuccio, Michael L ^a   Hanson, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PHYSICAL RESISTANCE;

EID: 0032825731     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.120.4.945     Document Type: Review

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