Helicases in Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants

Improving Crop Resistance to Abiotic Stress

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 435-449

  Tuteja, Narendra ^a,b   Gill, Sarvajeet Singh ^a,b,c   Tuteja, Renu ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c MAHARSHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

ABA; Abiotic stress; Biotic stress; DEAD H box protein; DNA helicase; RNA helicase; Stress tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864863701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527632930.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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