Polyamines and Their Role in Plant Osmotic Stress Tolerance

Climate Change and Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1053-1072

  Gupta, Kamala ^a   Dey, Abhijit ^a   Gupta, Bhaskar ^a  

^a PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Abscisic acid; Osmotic stress; Polyamine; Polyamine metabolism; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; DROUGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OSMOSIS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ABSCISIC ACID; OSMOTIC STRESS; POLYAMINE METABOLISM; POLYAMINES;

AMINES;

EID: 84988545561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527675265.ch40     Document Type: Chapter

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