Genetic Approaches toward Improving Heat Tolerance in Plants

Genes for Plant Abiotic Stress

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 221-260

  Hanumappa, Mamatha ^a   Nguyen, Henry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolving techniques; Genetic approaches in improving heat tolerance in crops; Genetic approaches toward heat tolerance in plants; Heat tolerance; High temperature impact and heat stress plant response; Plant and heat stress response; Plant heat tolerance improvement; Plants and heat tolerance mechanism; Stress combination effect; Thermotolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876336336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813809380.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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