Drought stress responses and signal transduction in plants

Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants: Functional Genomics Perspectives, Volume 2

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 195-225

  Lata, Charu ^a   Muthamilarasan, Mehanathan ^b   Prasad, Manoj ^b  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; Cross talk; Drought; Gene expression; Signal transduction; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944555064     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2540-7_7     Document Type: Chapter

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