Recent advances in dissecting stress-regulatory crosstalk in rice

Molecular Plant

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 250-260

  Sharma, Rita ^a,b   De Vleesschauwer, David ^a,c   Sharma, Manoj K ^a,b   Ronald, Pamela C ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Abiotic; biotic; crosstalk; defense response; hormone; stress; systems biology

Indexed keywords

NEGIBACTERIA; XANTHOMONAS ORYZAE; XANTHOMONAS ORYZAE PV. ORYZAE;

EID: 84875583584     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/sss147     Document Type: Review

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