Abscisic acid enhances tolerance of wheat seedlings to drought and regulates transcript levels of genes encoding ascorbate-glutathione biosynthesis

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue JUNE, 2015, Pages

  Wei, Liting ^a   Wang, Lina ^a   Yang, Yang ^a   Wang, Pengfei ^a   Guo, Tiancai ^a   Kang, Guozhang ^a  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; Ascorbate; Drought stress; Glutathione; Transcription level; Triticum aestivum L

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84936966682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00458     Document Type: Article

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