Enhanced tolerance to salt stress in transgenic rice that overexpresses chloroplast glutamine synthetase

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 103-111

  Hoshida, Hisashi ^a   Tanaka, Yoshito ^a   Hibino, Takashi ^a   Hayashi, Yasuyuki ^b   Tanaka, Akira ^b   Takabe, Tetsuko ^c   Takabe, Teruhiro ^a  

^a MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Plantech Research Institute   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glutamine synthetase; Photorespiration; Rice; Salt tolerance; Transgenic plant

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST; COLD TOLERANCE; CULTIVAR; ELECTRON TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; ISONIAZID; PHOTORESPIRATION; PHOTOSYSTEM II; SALT TOLERANCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPLASTS; COLD; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; ISONIAZID; ORYZA SATIVA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0033895244     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006408712416     Document Type: Article

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