Current status of breeding tomatoes for salt and drought tolerance

Advances in Molecular Breeding Toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 669-700

  Foolad, Majid R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

breeding; drought stress; drought tolerance; gene mapping; genetic engineering; genetic transformation; quantitative trait loci (QTL); salt stress; salt tolerance; transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249158991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5578-2_27     Document Type: Chapter

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