Silicon in plant tolerance against environmental stressors: Towards crop improvement using omics approaches

Current Proteomics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-143

  Zargar, Sajad Majeed ^a   Nazir, Muslima ^b   Agrawal, Ganesh Kumar ^c   Kim, Dea Wook ^d   Rakwal, Randeep ^c,e,f  

^a BABA GHULAM SHAH BADSHAH UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Research Laboratory for Biotechnology and Biochemistry RLABB   (Nepal)

^d National Institute of Animal Science   (South Korea)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^f SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Biotic stress; Crop plant; Minireview; Rice; Silicon

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; FUNGI; HYPHOMYCETES; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; POACEAE; RHIZOCTONIA;

EID: 77954701135     PISSN: 15701646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157016410791330507     Document Type: Article

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