Transgenic salt-tolerant tomato plants accumulate salt in foliage but not in fruit

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 765-768

  Zhang, Hong Xia ^a   Blumwald, Eduardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; FRUITS; SALTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; FRUIT; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL MEMBRANE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FRUIT; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0034899261     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/90824     Document Type: Article

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