Physiological, metabolic, and molecular responses of plants to abiotic stress

Stress Signaling in Plants: Genomics and Proteomics Perspective, Volume 2

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1-35

  Arbona, Vicent ^a   Manzi, Matías ^a   Zandalinas, Sara I ^a   Vives Peris, Vicente ^a   Pérez Clemente, Rosa M ^a   Gómez Cadenas, Aurelio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Oxidative stress; Plant hormones; Transcription factors; Water loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029127533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42183-4_1     Document Type: Chapter

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