Wild Relative and Transgenic Innovation for Enhancing Crop Adaptation to Warmer and Drier Climate

Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 522-545

  Xue, Gang Ping ^a   Mcintyre, C Lynne ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crop; Drought stress; Gene expression; Gene regulation; Genetic manipulation; Genetic variation; Heat stress; Resistance; Transgenic; Wild relative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886486677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470960929.ch36     Document Type: Chapter

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