Role of arbuscular mycorrhiza in amelioration of salinity

Salt Stress in Plants: Signalling, Omics and Adaptations

Volumn 9781461461081, Issue , 2013, Pages 301-354

  Hajiboland, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antioxidant defense system; Aquaporins; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF); Halophytes; Ion homeostasis; K:Na ratio; Mineral nutrition; Salinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902509096     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6108-1_13     Document Type: Chapter

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