Genetic improvement of heavy metal tolerance in plants by transfer of the yeast metallothionein gene (CUP1)

Plant and Soil

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 277-281

  Hasegawa, Isao ^a   Terada, Emiko ^a   Sunairi, Michio ^a   Wakita, Hajime ^a   Shinmachi, Fumie ^a   Noguchi, Akira ^a   Nakajima, Mutsuyasu ^a   Yazaki, Jinya ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Cauliflower; Heavy metal tolerance; Metallothionein; Phytochelatin; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030828495     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004222612602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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