Recent advances in the dissection of drought-stress regulatory networks and strategies for development of drought-tolerant transgenic rice plants

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Todaka, Daisuke ^a   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^b   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Plant Science Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drought; Rice; Stress signaling; Stress tolerance; Transgenic engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923238602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00084     Document Type: Review

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