Balancing salinity stress responses in halophytes and non-halophytes: A comparison between Thellungiella and Arabidopsis thaliana

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 819-831

  Bartels, Dorothea ^a   Dinakar, Challabathula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

dehydration; glycophytes; halophytes; salinity; Thellungiella

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DICOTYLEDON; GENE; HALOPHYTE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SALINITY TOLERANCE;

EID: 84881453705     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP12299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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