Molecular physiology of heat stress responses in plants

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

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 109-142

  Hemmati, Homa ^a   Gupta, Dinesh ^a   Basu, Chhandak ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Adaptation; Genetic transformations; Heat shock proteins; Heat stress response; Membrane fl uidity; Metabolites; Osmolytes; ROS scavenging system; Small non coding RNA; Thermotolerance; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944560962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2540-7_5     Document Type: Chapter

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