Soil alkalinity and salt tolerance: Adapting to multiple stresses

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Bromham, Lindell ^a   Saslis Lagoudakis, C Haris ^a   Bennett, Thomas H ^a   Flowers, Timothy J ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTION; HALOPHYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; POACEAE; SALT-TOLERANT PLANTS;

EID: 84891689384     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0642     Document Type: Article

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