Homoglutathione confers tolerance to acifluorfen in transgenic tobacco plants expressing soybean homoglutathione synthetase

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1428-1432

  Sugiyama, Akifumi ^a,b   Sekiya, Jiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acifluorfen; Glutathione; Glutathione S transferase; Herbicide tolerance; Homoglutathione; Transgenic tobacco

Indexed keywords

ACIFLUORFEN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLUTATHIONE; HOMOGLUTATHIONE; HOMOGLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; NITROBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOYBEAN; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GLUTATHIONE; NITROBENZOATES; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SOYBEANS; TOBACCO;

FABACEAE; GLYCINE MAX; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 24044515021     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci143     Document Type: Article

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