Response of plants to water stress

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Osakabe, Yuriko ^a   Osakabe, Keishi ^b   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^a   Tran, Lam Son P ^a  

^a RIKEN Plant Science Center   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Biomass; Drought stress; Photosynthesis; Reactive oxygen species; Stomatal closure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901032572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00086     Document Type: Review

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