Abiotic Stress: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

• Main Author: Mukesh Jain (auth)
• Other Authors: Rajeev K Varshney (auth), Rohini Garg (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; molecular genetics; signal transduction; transcriptional regulatory network; functional genomics; virus-induced gene silencing; abiotic stress
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Abiotic stresses are the major cause that limits productivity of crop plants worldwide. Plants have developed intricate machinery to respond and adapt over these adverse environmental conditions both at physiological and molecular levels. Due to increasing problems of abiotic stresses, plant biotech...