EHALOPH a database of salt-tolerant plants: Helping put halophytes to work

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2016, Pages e10-

  Santos, Joaquim ^a   Al Azzawi, Mohammed ^b   Aronson, James ^c,d   Flowers, Timothy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^d MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Database; Glycophyte; HALOPH; Halophyte; Salt tolerance

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HALOPHYTE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SALINITY; SALT TOLERANCE;

ANTIOXIDANTS; DATABASES, GENETIC; SALINITY; SALT-TOLERANCE; SALT-TOLERANT PLANTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 84964897180     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcv155     Document Type: Article

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