Ion transport and osmotic adjustment in plants and bacteria

Biomolecular Concepts

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 407-419

  Shabala, Sergey ^a   Shabala, Lana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

compatible solutes; inorganic ion; osmolyte; osmosensing; potassium; ROS scavenging; sodium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878177483     PISSN: 18685021     EISSN: 1868503X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMC.2011.032     Document Type: Article

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