Effect of reduced arginine decarboxylase activity on salt tolerance and on polyamine formation during salt stress in Arabidopsis thaliana

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 101-107

  Kasinathan, Vasuki ^a   Wingler, Astrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; ENZYMES; FUNCTIONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

MUTANTS; SALT STRESS; SALT TOLERANCE; WILD-TYPE PLANTS;

PHYSIOLOGY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 2442534051     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0031-9317.2004.00309.x     Document Type: Article

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