Expression of Arabidopsis CBF1 regulated by an ABA/stress inducible promoter in transgenic tomato confers stress tolerance without affecting yield

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1181-1190

  Lee, J T ^a,b   Prasad, V ^b   Yang, P T ^b,e   Wu, J F ^b,d   David Ho, T H ^c,d   Charng, Y Y ^b   Chan, Ming Tsair ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; CBF1; Osmotic stress; Transgenic tomato

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WATER STRESS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0042850582     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.2003.01048.x     Document Type: Article

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