A lea-class gene of tomato confers salt and freezing tolerance when expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Gene

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 243-248

  Imai, Ryozo ^a,c   Chang, Lei ^a   Ohta, Akinori ^a   Bray, Elizabeth A ^b   Takagi, Masamichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heterologous expression; LEA protein; Osmotic stress; Stress tolerance

Indexed keywords

SORBITOL; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FREEZING; GENE FUNCTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRESS; TOMATO;

EID: 0029926862     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00868-3     Document Type: Article

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