Transformation of tobacco with a gene for the thermophilic acyl-lipid desaturase enhances the chilling tolerance of plants

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 447-450

  Orlova, Irina V ^a,b   Serebriiskaya, Tatiana S ^a   Popov, Valeri ^a   Merkulova, Natalia ^a   Nosov, Alexander M ^a   Trunova, Tamara I ^a   Tsydendambaev, Vladimir D ^a   Los, Dmitry A ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chilling tolerance; Fatty acid desaturase; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD; CYANOBACTERIA; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TOBACCO;

CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 6301; TABACUM; THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS VULCANUS;

EID: 0037657751     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg047     Document Type: Article

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