Salt tolerance mechanisms in salt tolerant grasses (STGs) and their prospects in cereal crop improvement

Botanical Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Roy, Swarnendu ^a   Chakraborty, Usha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL   (India)

Author keywords

Model STGs; Osmoprotectants; Reactive oxygen species (ROS); Salt tolerant grasses (STGs); Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899142383     PISSN: 1817406X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1999-3110-55-31     Document Type: Review

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