Molecular approaches to improve rice abiotic stress tolerance

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 956, Issue , 2013, Pages 269-283

  Mizoi, Junya ^a   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Metabolic engineering; Protein kinase; Stress tolerance; Stress inducible promoter; Transcription factor; Transgenic rice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871857839     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-194-3_20     Document Type: Article

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