Transcriptional Profiling Approaches for Studying Nitrogen Use Efficiency

Nitrogen Metabolism in Plants in the Post-genomic Era

Volumn 42, Issue , 2010, Pages 41-62

  Hawkesford, Malcolm J ^a   Howarth, Jonathan R ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crop production; Microarray; Nitrogen use efficiency; Transcriptomics; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931956476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444328608.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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