A Selaginella lepidophylla trehalose-6-phosphate synthase complements growth and stress-tolerance defects in a yeast tps1 mutant

Plant Physiology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1473-1482

  Zentella, Rodolfo ^a   Mascorro Gallardo, José O ^a   Van Dijck, Patrick ^b   Folch Mallol, Jorge ^a   Bonini, Beatriz ^b   Van Vaeck, Christophe ^b   Gaxiola, Roberto ^a   Covarrubias, Alejandra A ^a   Nieto Sotelo, Jorge ^a   Thevelein, Johan M ^b   Iturriaga, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FUNGAL MUTANT; GEL BLOT ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MESSENGER RNA; STRESS TOLERANCE; SURVIVAL; TREHALOSE; TREHALOSE 6 PHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SELAGINELLA LEPIDOPHYLLA; SELAGINELLA PILIFERA;

EID: 0033117326     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.119.4.1473     Document Type: Article

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