Genetic improvement of Chinese cabbage for salt and drought tolerance by constitutive expression of a B. napus LEA gene

Plant Science

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 553-558

  Park, Byong Jin ^a   Liu, Zaochang ^b   Kanno, Akira ^a   Kameya, Toshiaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHANGHAI AGROBIOLOGICAL GENE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Drought tolerance; Kanamycin sensitive; Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) gene; Salt stress; Transgenic Chinese cabbage

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; GENES; PROTEINS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CHINESE CABBAGE; KANAMYCIN SULPHATE; LATE EMBRYOGENESIS ABUNDANT (LEA); NEOMYCIN PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE (NP);

PLANTS (BOTANY);

DROUGHT; GENES; PLANTS; PROTEINS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

AGROBACTERIUM; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. PEKINENSIS; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 22444450717     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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