Photosynthetic genes are differentially transcribed during the dehydration-rehydration cycle in the resurrection plant, Xerophyta humilis

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 54, Issue 392, 2003, Pages 2593-2595

  Collett, Helen ^a   Butowt, Rafal ^a   Smith, James ^a   Farrant, Jill ^a   Illing, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dehydration rehydration cycle; Photosynthesis; Photosystem II genes; Resurrection plant; Transcript

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; ENZYMES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYPEPTIDES;

REHYDRATION;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRATEROSTIGMA; DESICCATION; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; SELAGINELLA PILIFERA; XEROPHYTA; XEROPHYTA HUMILIS;

EID: 0242543075     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg285     Document Type: Article

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