High level transcription of a member of a repeated gene family confers dehydration tolerance to callus tissue of Craterostigma plantagineum

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3599-3608

  Furini, Antonella ^a,b   Koncz, Csaba ^a   Salamini, Francesco ^a   Bartels, Dorothea ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Ctro Lombardo per l'Incremento D   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; Activation tagging; Desiccation tolerance; Regulatory RNA; Resurrection plant

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; POLYPEPTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ABSCISIC ACID; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; RNA, PLANT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CRATEROSTIGMA PLANTAGINEUM; SELAGINELLA PILIFERA;

EID: 0030927108     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.12.3599     Document Type: Article

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