Responses of transgenic poplar (Populus tremula x P. alba) overexpressing glutathione synthetase or glutathione reductase to acute ozone stress: Visible injury and leaf gas exchange

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 50, Issue 332, 1999, Pages 365-374

  Strohm, Michael ^a   Eiblmeier, Monika ^a   Langebartels, Christian ^b   Jouanin, Lise ^c   Polle, Andrea ^a   Sandermann, Heinrich ^b   Rennenberg, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Antioxidative systems; Gas exchange; Glutathione; Ozone stress; Transgenic plants; Visible injury

Indexed keywords

GAS EXCHANGE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; HYBRID; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STRESS TOLERANCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

POPULUS ALBA; POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 0032991785     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/50.332.365     Document Type: Article

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