A combination of the Arabidopsis DREB1A gene and stress-inducible rd29A promoter improved drought- and low-temperature stress tolerance in tobacco by gene transfer

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 346-350

  Kasuga, Mie ^a   Miura, Setsuko ^a   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^b,c   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^a,c  

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

^b RIKEN TSUKUBA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drought tolerance; Low temperature stress tolerance; Stress inducible promoter; Transcription factor; Transgenic tobacco

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEHYDRIN PROTEINS, PLANT; DREB1A PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; DISASTER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; COLD; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NATURAL DISASTERS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOBACCO; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 1842817622     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pch037     Document Type: Article

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