Important roles of drought- and cold-inducible genes for galactinol synthase in stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 417-426

  Taji, Teruaki ^a,b   Ohsumi, Chieko ^c   Iuchi, Satoshi ^a   Seki, Motoaki ^a   Kasuga, Mie ^d   Kobayashi, Masatomo ^a   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^d   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^a,b  

^a RIKEN TSUKUBA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Drought tolerance; Galactinol; Galactinol synthase (GolS); Raffinose; RFO; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; DROUGHT; PROTEINS; SEED; STRESSES;

STRESS TOLERANCE;

GENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

6 BETA GALACTINOL; 6 BETA-GALACTINOL; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DISACCHARIDE; DREB1A PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; INORGANIC SALT; INOSITOL 1 ALPHA GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; INOSITOL 1-ALPHA-GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; RAFFINOSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; DISASTER; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL; SWEATING; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; COLD; DISACCHARIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NATURAL DISASTERS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RAFFINOSE; SALTS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 0036008978     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0960-7412.2001.01227.x     Document Type: Article

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