Physiological and molecular approaches to improve drought resistance in soybean

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1260-1276

  Manavalan, Lakshmi P ^a   Guttikonda, Satish K ^a   Phan Tran, Lam Son ^a   Nguyen, Henry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought resistance; Genetic engineering; Marker assisted selection; Physiological traits; Soybean Glycine max (L.) Merr

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BREEDING; CROP; DROUGHT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVIEW; SOYBEAN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BREEDING; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DROUGHTS; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOMICS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SOYBEANS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 67651094046     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcp082     Document Type: Review

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