Improved drought resistance in a wheat stay-green mutant tasg1 under field conditions

Biologia Plantarum

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 509-515

  Tian, F X ^a   Gong, J F ^a   Wang, G P ^a,b   Wang, G K ^a   Fan, Z Y ^a   Wang, W ^a  

^a SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fruit Tree Biotechnology Breeding   (China)

Author keywords

antioxidative defense system; chlorophyll degradation; chloroplast and thylakoid ultrastructures; drought stress; photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84862796372     PISSN: 00063134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10535-012-0049-7     Document Type: Article

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