Tea: Present Status and Strategies to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance

Improving Crop Resistance to Abiotic Stress

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1401-1424

  Kumar, Sanjay ^a   Paul, Asosii ^a   Bhattacharya, Amita ^a   Sharma, Ram Kumar ^a   Ahuja, Paramvir Singh ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Catechin expressed sequence tag; Dormancy; Drought; Epigenetic; Flavonoid; Kinematic; Micro rna; Molecular marker; Next generation sequencing; System biology; Tea; Transcriptome; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885755302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527632930.ch54     Document Type: Chapter

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