Approaches to increasing the salt tolerance of wheat and other cereals

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1025-1043

  Munns, Rana ^a   James, Richard A ^a   Läuchli, André ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barley; Durum wheat; Plant breeding; Rice; Salinity; Sodium

Indexed keywords

OSMOSIS; PLANT CELL CULTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SALTS; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSPIRATION;

DURUM WHEAT; PHENOTYPING; PLANT BREEDING; RICE; SALT TOLERANCE;

GENES;

SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

CEREAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OSMOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; WHEAT;

CEREALS; OSMOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRITICUM; WATER;

HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 33645019456     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erj100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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