Characterization of soybean genetically modified for drought tolerance in field conditions

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Fuganti Pagliarini, Renata ^a   Ferreira, Leonardo C ^b   Rodrigues, Fabiana A ^a   Molinari, Hugo B C ^c   Marin, Silvana R R ^a,d   Molinari, Mayla D C ^d   Marcolino Gomes, Juliana ^b   Mertz Henning, Liliane M ^a   Farias, José R B ^a   De Oliveira, Maria C N ^a   Neumaier, Norman ^a   Kanamori, Norihito ^e   Fujita, Yasunari ^e   Mizoi, Junya ^f   Nakashima, Kazuo ^e   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^f   Nepomuceno, Alexandre L ^a  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b Fellow of the National Research Council   (Brazil)

^c Embrapa Agroenergy ^*  (Brazil)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^e JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

ABA; Glycine max; Transcription factors; Transgene; Water deficit; Yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018610570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00448     Document Type: Article

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