Transcriptomic and Physiological Evidence for the Relationship between Unsaturated Fatty Acid and Salt Stress in

Na Sui1, Yu Wang1, Shanshan Liu1

  • 1Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Stress, College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.

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