Going beyond nutrition: Regulation of potassium homoeostasis as a common denominator of plant adaptive responses to environment

Journal of Plant Physiology - Tập 171 Số 9 - Trang 670-687 - 2014
Uta Anschütz1, Dirk Becker1, Sergey Shabala2
1University of Wuerzburg, Plant Molecular Biology & Biophysics, Wuerzburg, Germany
2School of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

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