Coordinated responses of phytochelatins and metallothioneins to heavy metals in garlic seedlings

Plant Science

Volumn 169, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1059-1065

  Zhang, Haiyan ^a,b   Xu, Wenzhong ^a   Guo, Jiangbo ^a,b   He, Zhenyan ^a   Ma, Mi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Allium sativum; Cadmium; Heavy metal tolerance; Metallothionein; Phytochelatin; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CLONING; DNA; HEAVY METALS; SEED; STRESSES;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; HEAVY METAL TOLERANCE; METALLOTHIONEINS; PHYTOCHELATIN; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CLONES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS; SEEDLINGS;

ALLIUM SATIVUM;

EID: 26444586666     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2005.07.010     Document Type: Article

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