Discovering Genes for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants

Genes for Plant Abiotic Stress

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 281-302

  Popelka, Michael ^a   Tuinstra, Mitchell ^a   Weil, Clifford F ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress tolerance genes in crop plants; Arabidopsis DREB1A and DREB2A; Conventional breeding strategies and marker assisted selection and crop yield increase; Evolutionary conservation and gene discovery; Gene discovery methods and plant transformation; Heat shock effect on protein denaturation and chaperonins; Novel transcription factors and stress tolerance impact; Response to reactive oxygen species (ROS) and abiotic stress tolerance; Zinc finger proteins in plants regulating development and programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856785828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813809380.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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