Ethylene and abiotic stress tolerance in plants

Environmental Adaptations and Stress Tolerance of Plants in the Era of Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 395-412

  Gamalero, Elisa ^a   Glick, Bernard R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drought; Ethylene; Flood; Metal stress; Plant growth promoting bacteria; Salt; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875206323     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0815-4_18     Document Type: Chapter

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