Developing and validating a high-throughput assay for salinity tissue tolerance in wheat and barley

Planta

Volumn 242, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 847-857

  Wu, Honghong ^a   Shabala, Lana ^a   Zhou, Meixue ^a   Stefano, Giovanni ^b   Pandolfi, Camilla ^c   Mancuso, Stefano ^c   Shabala, Sergey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Barley; Chlorophyll content; Excised leaf; Hordeum vulgare; Tissue tolerance; Triticum aestivum; Triticum turgidum ssp. durum; Vacuolar Na^{+< sup> sequestration; Wheat}

Indexed keywords

SODIUM;

ADAPTATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HORDEUM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SALINITY; VALIDATION STUDY; WHEAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HORDEUM; PLANT LEAVES; SALINITY; SODIUM; TRITICUM;

EID: 84941189020     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-015-2317-1     Document Type: Article

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