Temperature stress and redox homeostasis in agricultural crops

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Awasthi, Rashmi ^a   Bhandari, Kalpna ^a   Nayyar, Harsh ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cereals; Homeostasis; Legumes; Oxidative damage; Temperature stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948452287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2015.00011     Document Type: Review

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