Regulation of drought tolerance by gene manipulation of 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase, a key enzyme in abscisic acid biosynthesis in Arabidopsis

Plant Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 325-333

  Iuchi, Satoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Masatomo ^a   Taji, Teruaki ^a   Naramoto, Masaaki ^b   Seki, Motoaki ^a   Kato, Tomohiko ^c   Tabata, Satoshi ^c   Kakubari, Yoshitaka ^b   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^d   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^a  

^a RIKEN TSUKUBA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

9 cis epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED); Abscisic acid (ABA); Drought tolerance; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

9 CIS EPOXYCAROTENOID DIOXYGENASE; ABSCISIC ACID; BIOSYNTHESIS; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT BREEDING; STRAIN IMPROVEMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BIOSYNTHESIS; DEHYDRATION; ENZYMES; GENES; HORMONES; TRANSPIRATION;

GENE MANIPULATIONS;

DROUGHT;

ABSCISIC ACID; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGENASES; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WATER;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0034868711     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2001.01096.x     Document Type: Article

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