Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Approaches to the Analysis of Plant Freezing Tolerance and Cold Acclimation

Improving Crop Resistance to Abiotic Stress

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 255-287

  Hincha, Dirk K ^a   Espinoza, Carmen ^a   Zuther, Ellen ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cold acclimation; Freezing tolerance; Gene expression; Nonacclimated tolerance; Subzero acclimation; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885784410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527632930.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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