Chinese Bulletin of Botany ›› 1999, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (05): 555-560.

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Biological Mechanism of and Genetic Engineering for Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants

CHEN Shan-Fu and SHU Qing-Yao   

  1. (Institute of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hanzhou 310029)
  • Received:1999-02-08 Revised:1999-04-06 Online:1999-09-20 Published:1999-09-20

Abstract: This paper presents the harm to plant caused by drought stress, biological mechanism of drought stress tolerance, and recent advances in the studies on increasing the tolerance to drought stress through genetic engineering.