Salt Tolerance

Plant Biotechnology: Current and Future Applications of Genetically Modified Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 206-224

  Blumwald, Eduardo ^a   Grover, Anil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidant protection and salt tolerance; Commercial seed companies and salt tolerant crops; Environmental stress and salinity; Genetics of salt tolerance; Natural genetic variation exploitation; Salt tolerance impact on agricultural productivity; Salt tolerance using transgenic approaches; Tolerance genes in crop plants and 'position effect'; Transgenic plant generation for novel genes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747749263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470021837.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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