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Production of Salt Tolerant Rice by Introduction of a Gene Encoding Catalase, kat E

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Salt loading is one of the most serious environmental stresses that cause adverse affects on the growth of plants, leading to decrease in the productivity of crops. At present, 10% of available land for cultivation of crops is polluted with salt stress in75 countries in the world.

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  1. Tokyo University of Agriculture, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan

    Kenji Nagamiya, Kimiko Nakao, Shamsul H. Prodhan, Tsuyoshi Motohashi & Keiko Morishima

  2. National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, lbaraki, Japan

    Sakiko Hirose, Kenjiro Ozawa & Yasunobu Ohkawa

  3. Faculty of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Kenji Nagamiya & Tetsuko Takabe

  4. Research Institute, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan

    Teruhiro Takabe

  5. The Research Institute of Evolutionary Biology, 2-4-28, Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 158-0098, Japan

    Atsushi Komamine

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  1. University of Florida, USA

    Indra K. Vasil (Graduate Research Professor Emeritus, President) (Graduate Research Professor Emeritus, President)

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    Indra K. Vasil (Graduate Research Professor Emeritus, President) (Graduate Research Professor Emeritus, President)

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Nagamiya, K. et al. (2003). Production of Salt Tolerant Rice by Introduction of a Gene Encoding Catalase, kat E. In: Vasil, I.K. (eds) Plant Biotechnology 2002 and Beyond. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2679-5_30

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