Influence of selenium on metallothionein gene expression and physiological characteristics of sugarcane plants

Plant Growth Regulation

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 109-115

  Jain, Radha ^a   Verma, Rashmi ^a   Singh, Anshu ^a   Chandra, A ^a   Solomon, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SUGARCANE RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

MDA; MT gene; Photosynthetic pigments; Proline; Selenium; Sugarcane

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943356797     PISSN: 01676903     EISSN: 15735087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10725-015-0042-1     Document Type: Article

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