The effect of overexpression of two Brassica CBF/DREB1-like transcription factors on photosynthetic capacity and freezing tolerance in Brassica napus

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1525-1539

  Savitch, Leonid V ^a   Allard, Ghislaine ^a   Seki, Motoaki ^b   Robert, Laurian S ^a   Tinker, Nicholas A ^a   Huner, Norman P A ^c   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^b   Singh, Jas ^a  

^a OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brassica; CBF DREB1; Cold acclimation; Freezing tolerance; GLK; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RAPESEED;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BRASSICA NAPUS; DNA PRIMERS; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; SINAPIS ARVENSIS;

EID: 26444479358     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci165     Document Type: Article

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