Improved biomass productivity and water use efficiency under water deficit conditions in transgenic wheat constitutively expressing the barley HVA1 gene

Plant Science

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-9

  Sivamani, Elumalai ^a   Bahieldin, Ahmed ^b   Wraith, Jon M ^a   Al Niemi, Thamir ^a   Dyer, William E ^a   Ho, Tuan Hua David ^c   Qu, Rongda ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Barley HVA1 gene; Biomass productivity; LEA protein; Water deficit; Water use efficiency; Wheat transformation

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BARLEY; BIOMASS; CROP; GENE EXPRESSION; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; SOIL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WATER CONTENT; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0034640863     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(99)00247-2     Document Type: Article

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