Improving plant drought, salt and freezing tolerance by gene transfer of a single stress-inducible transcription factor

Novartis Foundation Symposium

Volumn 236, Issue , 2001, Pages 176-189

  Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^a   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^b  

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

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DREB1A PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DREB2A PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PROTEIN KINASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WATER;

ADAPTATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COLD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; COLD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PHOSPHOLIPASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN KINASES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 0035222207     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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