Building the crops of tomorrow: Advantages of symbiont-based approaches to improving abiotic stress tolerance

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Coleman Derr, Devin ^a   Tringe, Susannah G ^a  

^a DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Agriculture; Drought; Plant growth promotion; Plant microbe interactions; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ACHROMOBACTER; ACHROMOBACTER PIECHAUDII; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS SUBTILUS; BLUMERIA; CROP IMPROVEMENT; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FUNGUS; FUSARIOSIS; FUSARIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PAENIBACILLUS POLYMYXA; PIRIFORMOSPORA INDICA; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT MICROBE INTERACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SALT TOLERANCE; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS RHIZOPHILA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84905198679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00283     Document Type: Article

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