Novel drought-inducible genes in the highly drought-tolerant cowpea: Cloning of cDNAs and analysis of the expression of the corresponding genes

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1073-1082

  Iuchi, Satoshi ^b,c   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^a   Urao, Takeshi ^a   Terao, Tomio ^a   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^b,c  

^a JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata); Drought; Gene expression; Stress response

Indexed keywords

PISUM SATIVUM; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

EID: 0030432181     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029056     Document Type: Article

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