Salt sensitivity in chickpea

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 490-509

  Flowers, Timothy J ^a,b   Gaur, Pooran M ^c   Gowda, C L Laxmipathi ^c   Krishnamurthy, L ^c   Samineni, Srinivasan ^b,c   Siddique, Kadambot H M ^b   Turner, Neil C ^b   Vadez, Vincent ^c   Varshney, Rajeev K ^c,d   Colmer, Timothy D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^d Generation Challenge Programme   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Chloride; Cicer arietinum; Flowering; Germination; N2 fixation; Plant breeding; Plant water relations; Sodium; Soil salinity

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

BIOACCUMULATION; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; HYDROPONICS; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; OSMOSIS; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SELECTIVE BREEDING; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CHICKPEA; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; RHIZOBIUM; SALINITY;

CICER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GERMINATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; RHIZOBIUM; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SALINITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

CICER ARIETINUM; RHIZOBIACEAE;

EID: 77950998593     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.02051.x     Document Type: Article

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