Understanding and improving global crop response to ozone pollution

Plant Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 886-897

  Ainsworth, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

air pollution; biotechnology; crop breeding; crop yield; reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONING; MAPPING; OZONE; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLLUTION CONTROL; YIELD STRESS;

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES; CROP YIELD; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MAPPING POPULATIONS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RESPONSE MECHANISMS; TRANSCRIPT PROFILING;

CROPS;

OZONE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

AIR POLLUTION; BREEDING; CROP; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; POLLUTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SOYBEAN;

AIR POLLUTION; BREEDING; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; OZONE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SOYBEANS;

EID: 84991396712     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13298     Document Type: Article

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