Enhanced tolerance to light stress of transgenic Arabidopsis plants that express the codA gene for a bacterial choline oxidase

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 279-288

  Alia, ^a,e   Kondo, Yasuo ^b   Sakamoto, Atsushi ^a   Nonaka, Hideko ^a   Hayashi, Hidenori ^c   Pardha Saradhi, P ^a,f   Chen, Tony H H ^d   Murata, Norio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Toua University   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Choline oxidase; CodA gene; Photo induced inactivation; Transformed Arabidopsis

Indexed keywords

ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE; CATALYTIC CONVERSION; CHLOROPHYLL; CHOLINE OXIDASE; CHOLINE; ENZYMIC CONVERSION; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GLYCINEBETAINE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTOSYSTEM II; STRESS TOLERANCE; STRESS; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD RELATIVE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTHROBACTER; CATALASE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FATTY ACIDS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPIDS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LIGHT; PEROXIDASES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEMPERATURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTHROBACTER GLOBIFORMIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033136198     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006121821883     Document Type: Article

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