Genetic Engineering of Crop Plants for Abiotic Stress Tolerance

Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance: Biological Techniques

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-123

  Goel, Surbhi ^a   Madan, Bhawna ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Ion transport channels; Osmoprotectants; Osmotic balance; Stress signaling genes; Transcription factors; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

CROPS; CULTIVATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEAVY METALS; OSMOSIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCES; AGRICULTURAL LAND; HEAVY METAL TOXICITY; ION TRANSPORTS; OSMOPROTECTANTS; SALT-AFFECTED SOIL; TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 84926328925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800876-8.00005-9     Document Type: Chapter

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