Extreme climatic events: Impacts of drought and high temperature on physiological processes in agronomicallyimportant plants

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Feller, Urs ^a   Vaseva, Irina I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Drought; Heat; Leaf senescence; Phloem; Protein pattern; Stomates; Xylem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84935825392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2014.00039     Document Type: Review

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