Mercuric ion reduction and resistance in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants expressing a modified bacterial merA gene

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3182-3187

  Rugh, Clayton L ^a   Wilde, H Dayton ^e   Stack, Nicole M ^c   Thompson, Deborah Marin ^d   Summers, Anne O ^a   Meagher, Richard B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Medical College of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MeadWestvaco Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

heavy metals; phytoremediation; pollution; sequestration; toxic metals

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; MESSENGER RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSGENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0029919514     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.8.3182     Document Type: Article

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