Increased resistance to oxidative stress in transgenic tobacco plants overexpressing bacterial serine acetyltransferase

Plant Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 237-243

  Blaszczyk, Anna ^a   Brodzik, Robert ^a   Sirko, Agnieszka ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BACTERIAL SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GLUTATHIONE; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; CYSTEINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUTATHIONE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; TOBACCO;

AGROBACTERIUM; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TRIXIS;

EID: 0033213374     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00596.x     Document Type: Article

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