Phytohormones and their metabolic engineering for abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants

Crop Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 162-176

  Wani, Shabir H ^a   Kumar, Vinay ^b   Shriram, Varsha ^c   Sah, Saroj Kumar ^d  

^a SHER E KASHMIR UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY OF KASHMIR   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^c Affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University   (India)

^d MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Metabolic engineering; Phytohormones; Plant stresses

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009141772     PISSN: 20955421     EISSN: 22145141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cj.2016.01.010     Document Type: Review

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