Genetic improvement of Basmati rice for salt and drought tolerance by regulated expression of a barley Hva1 cDNA

Plant Science

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 525-532

  Rohila, Jai S ^a   Jain, Rajinder K ^b   Wu, Ray ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b CCS HARYANA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Actin1 promoter; Hva1; Stress tolerance; Stress inducible promoter; Transgenic Basmati rice

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DNA; DROUGHT; GENES;

ABIOTIC STRESS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN HVA1; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BARLEY; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PLANT ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; PLANT GROWTH; RICE; SALINITY; STRESS; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WATER CONTENT;

HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; PUSA;

EID: 0036736235     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(02)00155-3     Document Type: Article

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