Modulating AtDREB1C expression improves drought tolerance in salvia miltiorrhiza

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Wei, Tao ^a,b   Deng, Kejun ^b   Zhang, Qingxia ^a   Gao, Yonghong ^a   Liu, Yu ^b   Yang, Meiling ^a   Zhang, Lipeng ^a   Zheng, Xuelian ^b   Wang, Chunguo ^a   Liu, Zhiwei ^a   Chen, Chengbin ^a   Zhang, Yong ^b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Antioxidative metabolism; AtDREB1C; Drought; Photosynthetic capacity; Salvia miltiorrhiza; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010850262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00052     Document Type: Article

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