Improving plant drought, salt, and freezing tolerance by gene transfer of a single stress-inducible transcription factor

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 287-291

  Kasuga, Mie ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a,b   Miura, Setsuko ^a   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^a   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^c  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY ASSAY LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drought tolerance; Freezing tolerance; Multigene expression; Stress inducible promoter; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; DEHYDRATION; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SALT LOADING; STRESS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; GENE EXPRESSION; NATURAL DISASTERS; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032993342     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/7036     Document Type: Article

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