Genomic approaches to plant stress tolerance

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 117-124

  Cushman, John C ^a   Bohnert, Hans J ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Departments of Biochemistry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANT; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENOME; STRESS TOLERANCE; TARGETED MUTAGENESIS;

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EID: 0034014059     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(99)00052-7     Document Type: Review

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