Desiccation Tolerance: Gene Expression, Pathways, and Regulation of Gene Expression

Plant Desiccation Tolerance

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 115-148

  Bartels, Dorothea ^a   Phillips, Jonathan ^a   Chandler, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytological changes; Desiccation tolerance; Gene expression; Phospholipids; Water stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249255279     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470376881.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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