Transcription factors in abiotic stress responses: Their potentials in crop improvement

Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 337-366

  Thao, Nguyen Phuong ^a   Thi Hoang, Xuan Lan ^a   Thu, Nguyen Binh Anh ^a   Tran, Lam Son Phan ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Crop improvement; Engineering; Genetic; Stress tolerance; Transcriptional factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955367224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8824-8_14     Document Type: Chapter

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