Transgenic approaches to increase dehydration-stress tolerance in plants

Molecular Breeding

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 493-503

  Bajaj, Shavindra ^a   Targolli, Jayaprakash ^a   Liu, Li Fei ^a,b   Ho, Tuan Hua David ^c   Wu, Ray ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dehydration stress; Detoxifying enzymes; Lea genes; Osmoprotectants; Regulatory genes; Transgenic approaches

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; DETOXIFICATION; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENETIC IMPROVEMENT; GENETIC SELECTION; PLANT BREEDING; PROMOTER REGION; SALT TOLERANCE; STRESS TOLERANCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGRONOMY; BIOCHEMISTRY; DETOXIFICATION; DROUGHT; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION; PLANTS (BOTANY); TEMPERATURE;

ABIOTIC STRESS; DEHYDRATION STRESS; DETOXIFYING ENZYMES; LEA GENES; OSMOPROTECTANTS; PLANT PRODUCTIVITY; REGULATORY GENES; STRESS CONDITION; STRESS TOLERANCE; TRANSGENIC APPROACHES;

DEHYDRATION;

EID: 0033450903     PISSN: 13803743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009660413133     Document Type: Review

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