Transplastomic plants for innovations in agriculture. A review

Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1391-1430

  Wani, Shabir Hussain ^a   Sah, Saroj Kumar ^b   Sági, László ^c   Solymosi, Katalin ^d  

^a SHER E KASHMIR UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY OF KASHMIR   (India)

^b PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^d EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Biofortification; Biotic and abiotic stress tolerance; Chloroplast; Crop quality; Metabolic engineering; Transplastomic plants

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; BIOENGINEERING; BIOSAFETY; BIOTIC FACTOR; CHLOROPLAST; CROP YIELD; FOOD PRODUCTION; GREEN REVOLUTION; INNOVATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOREMEDIATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOLERANCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84946099474     PISSN: 17740746     EISSN: 17730155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13593-015-0310-5     Document Type: Review

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