Salt tolerance of halophytes, research questions reviewed in the perspective of saline agriculture

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 92, Issue , 2013, Pages 83-95

  Rozema, Jelte ^a   Schat, Henk ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dicotyledonae; Halophytes; Molecular phylogeny; Monocotyledonae; Salicornia; Salt tolerance engineering

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ALLELE; CHROMOSOME; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

AMARANTHACEAE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CHENOPODIOIDEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUDICOTYLEDONS; MYA; POACEAE; SALICORNIA; SARCOCORNIA; THELLUNGIELLA HALOPHILA;

EID: 84878176575     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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