Nitric oxide mitigates salt stress by regulating levels of osmolytes and antioxidant enzymes in chickpea

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue MAR2016, 2016, Pages

  Ahmad, Parvaiz ^a   Latef, Arafat A Abdel ^b,c   Hashem, Abeer ^d,e   Abd Allah, Elsayed F ^f   Gucel, Salih ^g   Tran, Lam Son P ^h,i  

^a S P COLLEGE   (India)

^b SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c TAIF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Agricultural Research Center   (Egypt)

^e KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^g NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^h TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

ⁱ RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; Chickpea; Gene expression; Nitric oxide; Osmolytes; Salt stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964194261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00347     Document Type: Article

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