Drought and salt tolerance in plants

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-58

  Bartels, Dorothea ^a   Sunkar, Ramanjulu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABA; Dehydration; Plant stress tolerance; Salinity; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CRATEROSTIGMA; HALOPHILA; MESEMBRYANTHEMUM; MESEMBRYANTHEMUM CRYSTALLINUM; THELLUNGIELLA HALOPHILA;

EID: 14644430438     PISSN: 07352689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07352680590910410     Document Type: Review

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