Group II late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins: structural and functional aspects in plant abiotic stress

Plant Growth Regulation

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-17

  Banerjee, Aditya ^a   Roychoudhury, Aryadeep ^a  

^a ST XAVIER S COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress tolerance; Dehydrins; In silico methods; Intrinsically disordered proteins; Late embryogenesis abundant; Transgenic approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939549930     PISSN: 01676903     EISSN: 15735087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10725-015-0113-3     Document Type: Review

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