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BioMed Research International
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 654120, 10 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/654120
Review Article
Biotechnological Approaches to Study Plant Responses to Stress
Department of Agricultural Sciences, Universitat Jaume I, Campus Riu Sec, 12071 Castelló de la Plana, Spain
Received 31 July 2012; Accepted 30 October 2012
Academic Editor: Sarvajeet S. Gill
Copyright © 2013 Rosa M. Pérez-Clemente et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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