Perspective: Abiotic stress tolerance: From gene discovery in model organisms to crop improvement

Molecular Plant

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-2

  Bressan, Ray ^a   Bohnert, Hans ^b   Zhu, Jian Kang ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROP; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 66949166445     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssn097     Document Type: Article

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