Advances in transgenic rice biotechnology

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 65-103

  Kathuria, Hitesh ^a   Giri, Jitender ^a   Tyagi, Himani ^a   Tyagi, Akhilesh K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Biosafety; Biotechnology; Genetic enhancement; Genetic transformation; Genomics; Regulatory elements; Stress tolerance; Transgenic plants; Yield

Indexed keywords

LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 34147139068     PISSN: 07352689     EISSN: 15497836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07352680701252809     Document Type: Review

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